The public is encouraged to join Anoka-Ramsey Community College Cambridge Campus for The Minnesota Writers Series Spoken Word Artist R. Vincent Moniz, Jr.
The event will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18 in the Juanita and Charles Peterson Community Room (G202). The event is free and open to the public.
The current and reigning Individual Poetry SLAM, Indigenous Poetry SLAM Champion, Moniz, Jr. finds agency, humor, and poetry in the adventure of being an Urban Indian.
This southside Minneapolis firestarter is a 2012 Jerome Fellow, a 2013 Beyond the Pure Fellow, a 2014 Verve Fellow, a 2015 Loft Literary Center Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, and a 2015 Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant recipient.
Moniz, Jr. has been a part of the Twin Cities artistic community for over two decades as an actor and only recently has begun to share his poetry. He has performed at The Loft Literary Center’s highly acclaimed Equilibrium series, Revolver Magazine’s Revolver at the Ritz, The Chazen Museum of Art, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the outdoor amphitheater of the Minneapolis American Indian Center.
Find Moniz’s performances online at Redoubted.com. For more information about this and other public events at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, visit AnokaRamsey.edu.