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NY Public Library Spotlights Latino Writers For National Library Week

NY Public Library Spotlights Latino Writers For National Library Week
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Latino Voices Editor, HuffPost

For the first time during National Library Week, the New York Public Library will specifically focus on Latino authors at their sixth annual Poetry of the Americas event Tuesday night.

Venezuelan writer and poet Ely Rosa Zamora curated the list of honorees and focused on Latin American, Caribbean and U.S.-born Hispanic authors. In honor of both National Library Week and National Poetry Month, Margarita Drago, Laura Lomas, Dinapiera Di Donato, Manuel Adrián López, José Luis Quesada, Rafael Courtoisie and Lila Zemborain read excerpts of their work.

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