WordShedNYC Reading Series Featuring Poet Michelle Yasmine Valladares 9/30/21 @7 pm

michelle yasmine valladares is a poet, teacher and filmmaker.  She is the author of Nortada, the North Wind (Global City Press) and several chapbooks.  Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, anthologized in Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond, (Norton) and translated into Spanish.  She was awarded “The Poet of the Year” by the Americas Poetry Festival of NY.  She produced three award winning independent films.   Currently, she is the Director of the MFA program in creative writing at The City College of New York in Harlem.  Her website is michelleyasminevalladares.com