Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series

Quiara Alegría Hudes and Willie Perdomo

May 4, 2023

Quiara Alegría Hudes’s new play is My Broken Language, an adaptation of her memoir. Her credits also include the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Water by the Spoonful, and the Tony Award-winning musical, In the Heights. “She is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories,” wrote Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Willie Perdomo’s books include Smoking Lovely: The Remix, The Crazy Bunch and The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. “Perdomo is an electric poet. His poems crackle with energy. The poet knows his beloved barrio, what to celebrate and what to condemn. There is raw pain in this voice, and much more: humor, irony, music, intelligence,” wrote Martín Espada.

This reading is being co-presented with El projecto de la literatura puertorriqueña / the Puerto Rican Literature Project, an archive supported by the University of Houston’s USLDH and the Mellon Foundation, which documents the literary work of Puerto Rican poets on the archipelago and in the diaspora.

This reading is presented in collaboration with the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO), the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States, and El projecto de la literatura puertorriqueña / the Puerto Rican Literature Project, an archive supported by the University of Houston’s USLDH and the Mellon Foundation, which documents the literary work of Puerto Rican poets on the archipelago and in the diaspora.

This program is part of the Unterberg Poetry Center.

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