Good Thunder Reading Series 2024-2025

Thursday, February 6, 2025
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Manakto

Willie Perdomo is the author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix, The Crazy Bunch, Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, and Where a Nickel Costs of Dime. Winner of the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, the PEN Open Book Award, the New York City Book Award in Poetry, and the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, Perdomo was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He co-edited the anthology, LatiNext, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry,Washington Post, Best American Poetry 2019, and African Voices. He teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy and was appointed State Poet of New York (2021-2023).

Schedules:

Workshop

10 – 11 a.m. | Minnesota State University, Mankato
Memorial Library, First Floor, SW Corner

Craft Talk
3 – 3:50 p.m. |Minnesota State University, Mankato
Centennial Student Union, Room 253/4/5

Reading
7:30 – 8:15 p.m. | Carnegie Art Center
120 S Broad S, Mankato, MN

All events are free and open to the public.