{"id":4642,"date":"2020-09-01T16:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/berriecenter\/?page_id=4642"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:41:19","slug":"leaning-into-the-unknown-dimitri-reyes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/berriecenter\/leaning-into-the-unknown-dimitri-reyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaning into the Unknown: Dimitri Reyes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Spoken Word Artist\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Dimitri Reyes\u00a0is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist, content creator, organizer, and educator from Newark, New Jersey. He has organized large-scale poetry events such as #PoetsforPuertoRicoNewark and read at venues such as The Dodge Poetry Festival, Split This Rock, Busboys and Poets, and the American Poetry Museum. Dimitri’s forthcoming book,\u00a0<\/span>Every First and Fifteenth\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is the winner of the Digging Press 2020 Chapbook Award.\u00a0Other work is published or forthcoming in\u00a0<\/span>Vinyl, Kweli, Entropy, Duende, Cosmonauts, Obsidian,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and\u00a0<\/span>Acentos<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0He is the Marketing & Communications Director at CavanKerry Press and is an Artist-in-Residence with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Learn more about Dimitri by visiting his website at\u00a0<\/span>dimitrireyespoet.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reyes will share his work from a new collection of poems relating to the microcosms of navigating supermarket trips, lockdown curfews, social media, writing, love, and racial profiling as experienced through the lens of a person of color.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Leaning into the Unknown\u00a0<\/em>Performance Summary<\/h4>\n