Join Us for a Special Poetry Reading at MMoA! On Tuesday, April 15, we invite you to a captivating poetry reading at the Mystic Museum of Art (MMoA) featuring the talented poets Luisa Caycedo-Kimura and José B. González. This event is a collaborative effort between Expressiones Cultural Center and MMoA, celebrating the theme "Stories, Dreams, Desires: The Artists of Expressiones." Don't miss this unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the evocative world of poetry and artistic expression. José B. González, born in San Salvador, El Salvador, immigrated to New London, Connecticut at the age of eight. He is the author of Toys Made of Rock (2015), which chronicles his journey from a non-English speaker to a professor of English, and When Love Was Reels (2017), a collection that pays homage to Latino and Latin American film stars and icons. His poetry has been anthologized in the Norton Introduction to Literature, Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry (2014), and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the U.S. He coedited Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (2006) and is a nationally known speaker who has presented at various prestigious institutions and countries. His work has been featured on Univision and American Latino TV. oin Us for a Special Poetry Reading at MMoA! On Tuesday, April 15, we invite you to a captivating poetry reading at the Mystic Museum of Art (MMoA) featuring the talented poets Luisa Caycedo-Kimura and José B. González. This event is a collaborative effort between Expressiones Cultural Center and MMoA, celebrating the theme "Stories, Dreams, Desires: The Artists of Expressiones." Don't miss this unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the evocative world of poetry and artistic expression. José B. González, born in San Salvador, El Salvador, immigrated to New London, Connecticut at the age of eight. He is the author of Toys Made of Rock (2015), which chronicles his journey from a non-English speaker to a professor of English, and When Love Was Reels (2017), a collection that pays homage to Latino and Latin American film stars and icons. His poetry has been anthologized in the Norton Introduction to Literature, Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry (2014), and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the U.S. He coedited Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (2006) and is a nationally known speaker who has presented at various prestigious institutions and countries. His work has been featured on Univision and American Latino TV. Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, translator, educator, an editor of Slapering Hol Press, and the author of All Were Limones (The Word Works, 2025), winner of the Hillary Tham Capital Collection competition. Other honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award, a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies.
