Sorting of the Ways: An Evening of Live Poetry, Performance, and Music
Following his first volume of poems, Through the Years (2010), and its successor, Roberta and Other Poems (2011), Ricardo Quinones, professor emeritus of literature at CMC, published A Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems (2011). The newer collection both draws from his earlier volumes and adds to them.
Redacting the poems will be Todd Mandel and Lisa Robins. Mandel is a former actor and former CMC advancement officer. Robins, who has enjoyed a lifelong career in theater, TV, and film, is a member of the Actors Studio and has recently received stellar reviews for her solo show, “The Blessing of a Broken Heart." Accompanying Mandel and Robins in the the reading will be rock and jazz icon, Don Preston, who is best known for his keyboard and ground-breaking synthesizer solos with Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention as well as countless film soundtracks including Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.