Rebecca Crown Library Receives Grant for Latino Poetry Programming
Rebecca Crown Library at Dominican University is one of 75 libraries across the country to receive to support public programs celebrating Latino poetry.
In total, $90,000 was awarded in stipends of $1,200 for each library through the Library of America's Latino Poetry: Places we Call Home initiative. As a recipient, Crown Library will develop public programs featuring poets, scholars and/or community leaders that are inspired by the forthcoming publication Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology.
The Library of America notes, “Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home invites participants into a nationwide conversation about Latino poetry—its distinctive rhythms, candor, and lyricism; its profound engagement with pasts historical and mythic; its imaginative reckoning with the complexities of language, land, and identity; and its visions of a nation enriched by the stories of immigrants, exiles, refugees, and their descendants."