A Reading by Poet Nikky Finney

2011 National Book Award Winning Author of Head Off and Split

Thursday, April 19th, 2012, 4pm, Room 137 Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Joining Finney will be young poets from the Care Center in Holyoke, MA, including Yasmin Colon, Tamara Morales, Maria Ortiz, Brendaliz Rivera, and Joan Zayas, with Tzivia Gover, director of the Care Center Poetry Forum

Sponsored by the Cardinal/O'Leary Fund of the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, and generously co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass; the Provost's Office and Poetry Center of Smith College; the Department of English and the Creative Writing Center of Amherst College; and the Five College Lecture Fund.