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SUMMARY:2026 Freund Reading Featuring Benjamin Garcia and Sophia Veltfort
LOCATION:Klarman Hall Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium\, 232 East Ave\, Ithaca\,
  NY 14853
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Literatures in English celebrates the winner
 s of the 2026 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing in recognition of 
 excellence in publication.\n\nThe alumni prize is supported by the Philip
  Freund '29 endowment and comes with a $5000 award and an invitation to p
 articipate in the Freund Prize Reading in the fall semester.\n\nThe 2026 
 Freund Prize Reading will take place on Thursday\, November 12 at 5:00 p.
 m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium\, Klarman Hall KG70. Recipients will rea
 d from their award-winning work. Books by the authors will be available f
 or purchase thanks to Ithaca's local cooperative Non-profit bookstore Buf
 falo Street Books\, and a book signing will follow the reading.\n\nMore a
 bout the 2026 Freund Prize recipients:\n\nBenjamin Garcia\, Poetry\, MFA 
 '11\nBenjamin Garcia is a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in 
 poetry. His first collection\, THROWN IN THE THROAT\, was selected for th
 e National Poetry Series\, the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize\, and was 
 a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He worked for ten years as
  a sexual health and harm reduction educator in New York’s Finger Lakes r
 egion\, where he received the Jill Gonzalez Health Educator Award recogni
 zing contributions to HIV treatment and prevention. A CantoMundo and Lamb
 da Literary fellow\, he serves as core faculty at Alma College’s low-resi
 dency MFA program. His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming 
 in: AGNI\, American Poetry Review\, Indiana Review\, Kenyon Review\, and 
 Ne\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/24839e61-2416-49e9-80a2-c79eff2b55d0
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