City Reading Series & CCNY MFA Program Presents: An Evening of Poetry and Prose
Friday, September 11, 2026 6:30-8pm at P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts 180 Orchard St Lower East Side
Featuring Michelle Y. Valladares
2025 Blue Sketch Press Manuscript Winner
Author of the upcoming book
map of her new world
https://www.bluesketchpress.com/2025-manuscript-contest-winner
Nomad Vintage with Hope Stranger Present: Sale Party & Reading
Thursday, September 10, 2026 4-9pm at Nomad Vintage, 208 East 6th Street, NYC
Readings begin at 7pm
Featuring
Michelle Y. Valladares
2025 Blue Sketch Press Manuscript Winner and author of the upcoming book, map of her new world
Lydia Gidwitz
Reading from, The Three of Us vs Them All
I am proud to announce that Blue Sketch Press has named me winner of their 2025 Manuscript Contest in partnership with Aster(ix) Journal. map of HER new world, a collection of poems, is forthcoming.
https://www.bluesketchpress.com/2025-manuscript-contest-winner/
Michelle Valladares discusses the MFA program at City College of New York, CUNY, with Inside Higher Ed’s Sara Weissman.
Read the article here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/06/22/cuny-attracts-diverse-future-authors
NIGHTS OF THE FIREFLIES:
POETRY AND PROSE READ-ALOUD
Thursday, June 10, 2021, 7 - 8:15 pm via Zoom
Come join us for the latest event in this reading series, conceived and curated by poet Hermine Meinhard. Hear and be inspired by Meinhard, Wendy Chen, Cary Gitter and Michelle Yasmine Valladares, who will each read from their original work.
Hermine Meinhard, host
Wendy Chen, poet and translator
Cary Gitter, playwright
Michelle Yasmine Valladares, poet
Performing Cary Gitter’s play How My Grandparents Fell in Love will be actors Eli Gelb as Charlie and Lauren Annunziata as Chava. Wendy Chen will read her poetry and translations, and Michelle Valladares will read her poetry.
A Q&A will shine light on the process of writing. How do poems, plays and stories get written? How do you find your way to language that holds the fullness of experience?
Come shine with us.
This event is free.
“Plein air poems, Indian Pond” published in the June 2021 issue of (RE) An Ideas Journal. Collaboration with composer Joan Hacker.
Read and hear the work here: https://reideasjournal.com/michellespoem
BILINGUAL POETRY READING/LECTURA BILINGÜE DE POESÍA #2
Poets in New York: A Bilingual Poetry Reading
5 Poets from CCNY
Featuring Carlos Aguasaco (Colombia), Isaac Goldemberg (Peru), Daniel Shapiro (USA), Michelle Valladares (USA), and Barry Wallenstein (USA)
Moderated by Marisa Russo
Translators: Jennifer Rathbun and Sasha Reiter
79. POESÍA ESTADOUNIDENSE. MICHELLE YASMINE VALLADARES
Nueva York Poetry Review has published GHAZAL: It is the cry of the gazelle when it is cornered in a hunt and knows it will die, NOTHING PREPARED ME, THE FIRST TIME I THINK ABOUT DEATH, RAVENS AND CROWS, and WE HEAR YOU by Michelle Valladares, accompanied by translations into Spanish by Isaac Goldemberg.
Read the poems here: https://nuevayorkpoetryreview.com/Nueva-york-Poetry-Review-3093-79-poesia-estadounidense-michelle-yasmine-valladares
365 Moments of Silence: a year of 433
Readings by Michelle Y. Valladares, David Groff, John Biguenet, Lucy Wijnands, Melissa Frias, Sean Ennis, Lucy Wijnands (Interlude)
May 1, 2021, 2pm ET over Zoom
Artist Talk with Lewis Watts
Friday, April 30, 2021, 5-6 p.m. (EST)
The MFA Program in CW at CCNY would like to invite you to an Artist Talk with Lewis Watts, photographer whose virtual exhibition “Mining the Archive” is featured in our Archives as Muse: a Harlem Storytelling Project.
https://archivesasmuse.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events
Generously sponsored by the LUCE foundation
The Devil Never Sleeps directed and produced by Lourdes Portillo and co-produced by Michelle Valladares has been named one of “Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking” in an article written by Richard Brody in The New Yorker.
Read the article here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/sixty-two-films-that-shaped-the-art-of-documentary-filmmaking
The Devil Never Sleeps (El diablo nunca duerme) investigates the sudden death of Oscar Ruiz Almeida.
New poem blessings published in the literary journal 2 Horatio, Volume 3, “Poetry of the Pandemic.“
Read the poem here: www.michelleyasminevalladares.com/poems
Or the full journal here: www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/63886855/2-horatio
Michelle Valladares interviewed by Ariana Cruz for Harlem View, “Meditating In The Time of Coronavirus”
https://harlemview.com/latest/2020/05/meditating-in-the-time-of-coronavirus
I was delighted to be included with these stellar poets in (UN)BOUND: BEST OF POETRY by ASTER(IX) JOURNAL
I was honored to open this night of wonderful poetry honoring all victims of sexual assault in Harlem, curated by MFA Graduate Student, Christina Marie Castro.
