Celebrate the publication of Receta, Mario José Pagán Morales' exciting debut poetry collection.

Please note that the venue is 21+

Hosted by Rich Villar

With guest readers, in-person and via video

Mario José Pagán Morales is a Nuyorican poet and cultural worker born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in the South Bronx. His work is anthologized in The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Books, 2020), Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea (great weather for MEDIA, 2019), and in the 2019 “The Performance of Breath” edition of The Acentos Review (edited by Peggy Robles-Alvarado and Lupe Méndez). Receta (great weather for MEDIA, 2022) is his debut collection.

Pagán is a founding member of the Títere Poets, a collective of poets challenging the boundaries of masculinity and vulnerability. In addition, he is a Pushcart Prize nominee and co-founder of the La Esquina open mic, a series in service to the Latinx poetry community from coast to coast. He makes his home in Brooklyn, New York.

Guest readers:

Josiah Luis Alderrete (Mission District, San Francisco)

Isa Guzman (Los Sures, Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Sauda Aziza Jackson (NYC and Chicago)

Susana Praver-Perez (Oakland, CA)

Luivette Resto (Los Angeles, by way of The Bronx, by way of Aguas Buenas, PR)

Peggy Robles-Alvarado (The Bronx)

Bonafide Rojas (The Bronx)

Maria Serrano (Jersey, by way of The Bronx)

Elisabet Velasquez (Brooklyn)