Event Details

In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, Institutional Equity will host a public reading and Q&A with Julian Randall, acclaimed slam poet and author of YA novel Pilar Ramirez And The Escape from Zafa. The reading will take place on Thursday, October 13 at 7:30 pm in Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel. All are welcome to attend.

Julian Randall is a Living Queer Black Dominican poet from Chicago. His writing has been published in New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and POETRY, and anthologized in Black Boy Joy (which debuted at #1 on the NYT Best Seller list), Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed and Furious Flower. He is the author of Refuse (Pitt, 2018), winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, as well as the middle grade novel Pilar Ramirez And The Escape from Zafa (Holt, Winter 2022), and The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: Essays (Bold Type Books, Spring 2023).
This event is organized by Institutional Equity, the Department of Multicultural Life, and the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life with co-sponsorship from the English Department, the Spanish and Portuguese Department, and the Latin American Studies Department.