A poetry series co-sponsored by The Latinx Project, Borders and Diasporas, the Department of English, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The first in the series was a reading and conversation with Victor Hernández Cruz.

Hernández Cruz was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. He moved to New York City with his family when he was five years old, and started learning English when his family bought a television set. Cruz started writing poetry at seventeen and self-published his first book, Papo Got His Gun! And Other Poems, on a mimeograph machine. Since then, more than a dozen collections of his poems, Snaps (1969); By Lingual Wholes (1982); Red Beans (1991); Rhythm, Content, and Flavor: New and Selected Poems (1989); and The Mountain in the Sea (2006), have been published by traditional publishing houses. He is a member of the Nuyorican movement of writers.  

For more information, contact Professor Urayoán Noel at tun202@nyu.edu.