Get Fresh Books Reading – Darla Himeles, Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta & Ariel Francisco

Join Get Fresh Books poets Rosebud Ben-One, Kathy Engel and Ananda Lima for an amazing poetry reading on 3/19 at 7 pm.
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4564170866
Zoom meeting ID: 456 417 0866

Darla Himeles is the author of the chapbook Flesh Enough (2017) and the full-length poetry collection Cleave (forthcoming, 2021), both from Get Fresh Books. A Pushcart-Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee, Darla can be read in recent issues of Talking River, Atticus Review, Storyscape, New Ohio Review, and Naugatuck River Review. She is a poetry editor at Platform Review and recently earned her PhD in American literature at Temple University, where she currently works as assistant director of the Writing Center. Darla has also studied at Santa Monica College, Bryn Mawr College, and Drew University, where she received her MFA in poetry and poetry in translation. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife, daughter, and two orange cats.

Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta is an associate professor at the City University of New York-BCC, and the daughter of Colombian and Cuban immigrants. Her first book of poetry, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, is an Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist and it is forthcoming from Get Fresh Books in April, 2021. Recent work can be found in Best American Poetry, The Baffler, Split this Rock, Acentos Review, Kweli Journal, Latino Book Review, Red Fez, Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, In Full Color, Paterson Literary Review, and Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader. She is a Geraldine Dodge Foundation Poet, a Macondo Fellow, and the editor of Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, 2019).

Ariel Francisco Henriquez Cos is the author of Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2021), A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017) which was named one of the 8 Best Latino Books of 2017 by Rigoberto Gonzalez, and Before Snowfall, After Rain(Glass Poetry Press, 2016). Born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents, he was raised in Miami and completed his MFA in Poetry at Florida International University and an MFA in Literary Translation at Queens College CUNY. He was named one of the Five Florida Writers to Watch in 2019 by The Miami New Times and one of the 6 Guatemalan Authors You Should Know in 2021 by the Latino Book Review. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Yorker Podcast, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, The New York City Ballet, Performance Today, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His first translation collection, Carolina Sanchez’s Viaje/Voyage (Editorial Ultramarina, 2020) was just published in Spain. He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Louisiana State University.