Poet Crystal Valentine will be at NOLA's Rock Bar for a poetry reading as part of Pygmalion 2021. Crystal Valentine's visit is generously sponsored by The Urbana Free Library Foundation.
Crystal Valentine is a nationally and internationally acclaimed poet, activist, and educator. She is the author of Not Everything is a Eulogy. Valentine is the winner of the 2015 and 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, the 2nd place winner of the National Poetry Slam and the 9th ranked poet by way of the Women of the World Poetry Slam and the individual World Poetry Slam. Valentine has traveled across seas performing on platforms in Paris, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and elsewhere. She was named Glamour Magazine’s 2016 College Woman of the Year, Teen Vogue’s Rising Young Black Thought Leader, and was the recipient of the National Conference of College Women Student Leaders Woman’s Distinction Award. A Callaloo Fellow and 2015 New York City Youth Poet Laureate, Valentine’s work has been featured on MSNBC, Blavity, Button Poetry, The Huffington Post, BET, CNN, The New York Daily News and more. She earned her B.A. in Psychology at New York University, where she is currently a Goldwater Fellow and MFA candidate in Poetry. She lives in Boston, MA.
Can't make it to NOLA's Rock Bar? You can watch the reading live on the Library's Facebook page. A recording will also available on Facebook for 30 days.
Crystal Valentine's visit is generously sponsored by The Urbana Free Library Foundation.
For the full schedule of Pygmalion events see: http://thisispygmalion.com/schedule/
Conveniently located at the corner of Race and Green in downtown Urbana.
