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BCC Spoken Word Club in collaboration with the Writing Center
is pleased to present
A Poetry Event with Dorísa Smith Silva
Sage Hall Room 100-D
July 17, 2025
Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), which was a finalist for the Whirling Prize, reviewed by Publishers Weekly, and placed on Ms. Magazine’s list of top poetry books of 2024-2025. She is a multi-nominated Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Obsidian Fellow, Poetry Editor at The Hopper, and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Literary Hub, Poets.org, and The Los Angeles Review have published her work, and she has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Moreover, she is the author of Good Girl (poetry micro-chapbook), editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering, and the co-editor of seven books. Looking to increase the visibility of poetry by BIPOC authors, she is the creator of the Smith Silva Challenge which is a reading challenge that highlights poetry books by BIPOC authors.
Questions:
Contact Jan Robertson, Writing Center Director
Sage Hall Room 100
email janet.robertson@bcc.cuny.edu
