New book forthcoming from Blue Sketch Press in 2027
map of HER new world
Forthcoming from Blue Sketch Press in 2027
Winner of Blue Sketch Press 2025 Manuscript Contest in partnership with Aster(ix) Journal.
Pre-order through Blue Sketch Press.
Workshops at University of Graz, Austria
I am leading workshops on poetry and food at the University of Graz, Austria, facilitating Austrian-American exchange in agricultural schools in Styria from November 23—December 4, 2026.
Reading at Bowery Poetry Club
Bowery Music + Poetry + Film 2026 at Bowery Poetry Club
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Join us for an evening of a diverse theatrical encounter with experimental music, spoken word poetry & film projections, directed by Paul Moon.
Featuring David Groff, Reuben Gelley Newman, JP Howard & Michelle Yasmine Valladares
Creative Expressions NYC Salon at Dada
Creative Expressions NYC Salon at Dada
60-47 Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, NY
Sunday, October 4, 2026 5-7pm
Featuring Michelle Yasmine Valladares, The Artist Anubis, Avra Wing
An Evening of Poetry of Prose
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
Reading & Sale Party at Nomad Vintage
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
Blue Sketch Press 2025 Manuscript Contest Winner
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/
Inside Higher Ed Interviews Michelle Valladares, Director of MFA program, CCNY
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, Curated by Hermine Meinhard
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 Published in (RE) An Ideas Journal with Composer Joan Hacker
“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
Poets in New York: A Bilingual Poetry Reading Featuring Michelle Valladares
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
Nueva York Poetry Review: Michelle Valladares Poems Published and Translated into Spanish
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 Valladares, David Groff, John Biguenet and more
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
Archives as Muse: a Harlem Storytelling Project. Artist Talk with Lewis Watts, Hosted by Michelle Valladares
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” named in New Yorker's "Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking"
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.
"blessings" published in the literary journal 2 Horatio, Volume 3 "Poetry of the Pandemic"
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
Interview in Harlem View, "Meditating In The Time of Coronavirus"
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