In celebrating April as National Poetry Month, the Center for Black Literature, in partnership with Brooklyn Public Library, presents An Evening with Darrel Alejandro Holnes and Friends.

This program will highlight Holnes's first full-length collection Stepmotherland: Poems (Notre Dame Press, 2022), winner of the 2022 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.

The evening's discussion will focus on themes central in Stepmotherland: family and Afro-Panamanian American identity in the U.S. E. Ethelbert Miller, whose latest book is When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories, published by City Point Press, and Shyanne Figueroa Bennett are the featured guest poets. The discussion will be moderated by Sonja Watson, Dean of the AddRan College of Liberal Arts at Texas Christian University and editor of the journal The Publication of the Afro-Latin American Research Association.

We thank the Amazon Literary Partnership for their continued support of the John Oliver Killens Reading Series.