Denice Frohman

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An intimate evening with poet, performer and educator Denice Frohman and introducing young poets Marissa Perez and Rio Santos.

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Denice Frohman is a poet, educator, and performer from New  York City. She is a Canto Mundo Fellow, former Women of the  World Poetry Slam Champion, and National Association of Latino  Arts & Cultures grant recipient. 

Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Nepantla: An  Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, Women of Resistance: Poems  for a New Feminism, and garnered over 10 million views online.  She’s featured on national and international stages, including The  Apollo, The White House, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and over 200  colleges and universities. 

She has a Master’s in Education and co-organizes #PoetsforPuertoRico. She lives in Philadelphia.

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Marissa Perez is the 97th Glascock Poetry Prize recipient. Her work has appeared in Huizache Magazine of Latino Literature and is forthcoming in As It Ought to Be Magazine and others. She is working on a lyric prose manuscript as a part of her Hampshire College senior thesis.

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Rio Santos is Northampton’s first ever youth poet laureate. A ninth-grade student at Northampton High School, Rio loves to learn and is passionate about social justice. Along with their younger sister, Rio divides their time between Hadley and Northampton. They have played the violin since first grade but have been writing poems for even longer. Their interests include astrophysics, fiction-writing, singing, song-writing, horseback riding, birds, reading, and digital drawing.

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