Natalia Rodriguez is CCNY鈥檚 emerging poet

Natalia Rodriguez鈥 poetry is taking her places. T九色视频 graduating senior showcases her verse at a at in Brooklyn April 14, straight from her top two finish in the invitation-only at Mount Holyoke College.

An English major with a concentration in creative writing, Rodriguez joins several emerging writers and artists in the literary exhibition. The event is entitled, 鈥淎 writing gallery: showcasing a variety of multi-genre experimental and interactive prose and poetry across mediums.鈥滻n the exclusive Glascock Poetry Contest, Rodriguez won second prize for a selection of her verse.  The field included poets from Yale University, Fordham and Smith College.

Distinguished poets Ari Banias, Marilyn Chin and Ronaldo Wilson served as judges. 

Held annually since 1924, the Glascock competition has launched the careers of many of America's most important poets including James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, Kenneth Koch, Donald Hall and Gjertrud Schnackenberg.

Last summer, Rodriguez, a Washington Heights resident, was one of five undergraduate poets selected to attend the in Montana.

The residency is a collaboration between Michelle Valladares, poet and co-director of City College鈥檚 MFA Program in Creative Writing, and , poet, river guide and director of the Beargrass writing workshops in Montana.  Participants travel to Missoula, Montana, to hike, canoe, write poems and think about wilderness, landscape and the relationship between the environment and their writing.

Rodriguez, who has a 3.50 GPA, is an editorial associate with 鈥淔iction,鈥 a CCNY-published literary magazine.

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