Literary Arts
msabrookhaven.org
Brookhaven, MS
On Wednesday, August 13th and Thursday, August 14th at 12:15pm, Dimitri Reyes will lead virtual masterclasses on performance poetry for the Literary Arts Writing Lab course.
Dimitri Reyes is a Boricua multidisciplinary artist, content creator, and educator from Newark, New Jersey. He has been named one of The Best New Latinx Authors of 2023 by LatinoStories.com for his most recent book, Papi Pichón (Get Fresh Books, 2023) which was a finalist for the Omnidawn chapbook contest and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. His other books include Every First and Fifteenth, the winner of the Digging Press 2020 Chapbook Award, and the poetry journal Shadow Work for Poets, now available on Amazon. Dimitri’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and you can find more of his writing in Poem-a-Day, Vinyl, Kweli, & Acentos. He was also an inaugural poetry fellow for the Poets & Writers Get The Word Out publishing incubator and is a 2024 fellow with the NJ Arts Professional Learning Institute. Dimitri is the Marketing & Communications Director at CavanKerry Press.