September featured Poet: Ricardo Hernandez

Please come down and help us launch our 13th season at Barnes & Noble.  Prior to the feature we will pay tribute to Ken & Pearl Siegelman. 

Our featured poet for September is one of Brooklyn's unique voices, Ricardo Hernandez.

Ricardo is from the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. With influences from early hip hop culture, Ricardo is inspired by the written form of graffiti and the spoken word of rap. Ricardo grew up painting walls under the street lights of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Hanging out on the corner kicking freestyle rhymes with friends, Ricardo found himself expressing the world around him through the arts. Today the spray can is no longer in hand, but he hasn't put down the pen and pad. When Ricardo graduated High School he enlisted in the United Sates Air Force and served as a Project Manager with the 71st Fighter Squadron. Ricardo was the very successful host of "Poet's Settlement" at Breukelen Colony. He's also a regular at many open mic venues such as "Tom Kane's Boulevard Bards" held at Boulevard Books & Cafe, "Ken Seigleman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach" at the Park Slope Barnes & Nobles, "Brooklyn Poets" at 61 Local and "The Bay Ridge Poets Society" at the Owl's Head Wine bar.

Following Ricardo's reading, we will have the open mic.

Put a poem in your pocket, and come down and read with us or just come to listen.

Hope to see you there,

Anthony Vigorito

When: Thursday, September 24

6:30-8:30 pm

Where: Barnes & Noble Park Slope

267 7th Ave (at 6th St)

Brooklyn, NY 11215

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