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April, 2023
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Event:
Bessy Reyna to Read and Lead Discussion on Race
Date:
April 5th, 2023.
Time:
6:30 PM
Location:
Virtual from Lyme Public Library via Zoom
Contact:
programreg@lymepl.org
The Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club hosts Poet and Prose Author Magdalena Bessy Reyna. The Club will be focusing each month on a book about race relations in the United States. The book group will be meeting via Zoom where we will meet to discuss the book and participate in a fair and open discussion of the subject of race relations.
To register for this event and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email
programreg@lymepl.org
or call 860-434-2272.
About Magdalena Reyna:
Born in Cuba and raised in Panama, Bessy is a graduate of Mt Holyoke College and earned her Masters and Law degrees from the University of Connecticut. For nine years she was a monthly opinion columnist for The Hartford Courant and was a frequent contributor to Northeast, the Courant's Sunday Magazine. For several years, she conducted radio interviews with poets appearing at Hill-Stead Museum’s renowned Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in Farmington, CT. Currently, she writes an arts-and-culture page for the Hispanic newspaper Identidad Latina and an opinion columnist for
www.CTLatinoNews.com
. A former Master Teaching Artist for the
Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, she is a frequent lecturer and guest artist at colleges, libraries and museums. She has performed her poetry internationally; taught writing workshops in many venues; and served as a
judge for poetry competitions, including the Connecticut Book Award for Poetry.
This month's books of the month will be: "Battlefield of Your Body" by Magdalena Reyna and "Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience" edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond.
This book club is a co-operative effort between the Lyme Public Library of CT and the Bigelow and Springfield Libraries of MA This special event is made possible by a grant from the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut
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