SPOTLIGHT
ALL THINGS CONNECTICUT: Spotlight on the Arts “Poet Bessy Reyna”
Bessy Reyna — National Immigrant Heritage Center
Spotlight: Bessy Reyna (Hobard Village Festival of Women Writers, 2015)
Long River Review Interviews Bessy Reyna (2012)
Portraits of Strength: Bessy Reyna ’72 MA, ’82 JD – UConn Today
https://quchronicle.com/59997/arts-and-life/the-power-of-poetry/
READINGS: YOUTUBE
Bessy Reyna “What We Left Behind”
Bessy Reyna “Is This Really Broad Street, Hartford?”
POEMS IN PRINT
Paradise Lost: The Poetry of Bessy Reyna
https://www.nuevayorkpoetryreview.com/Nueva-york-Poetry-Review-2841-115-poesia-panamea-bessy-reyna-
https://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/es/Festival/32/BessyReyna/
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0935312544 (The Defiant Muse: Hispanic Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present)
http://www.antoniomiranda.com.br/iberoamerica/cuba/bessy_reyna.html
REVIEWS IN SPANISH
Bessy Reyna presenta un poemario lleno de una feminidad exorbitante en Memorias de la amante infiel
https://lacolmena.uaemex.mx/article/view/5741
Bessy Reyna, Memorias de la amante infiel
http://cronicaantropologica.blogspot.com
SELECTED OPINION PIECES AVAILABLE IN JOURNALISM ARCHIVE
I was an opinion columnist for the Hartford Courant from July 2000 to September 2009.
Reyna, Bessy. (2000, July 21). We prepare for terrorists, ignore our own terror. The Hartford Courant. p. A17.· Reyna, Bessy. (2001, October 19). We can’t bomb our way to a safer world. The Hartford Courant. p. A19.· Reyna, Bessy. (2003, August 3). From the land of uncivil unions. The Hartford Courant. p. A17.· Reyna, Bessy. (2004, August 20). Feminism’s foes turning back the clock on gender roles. The Hartford Courant. p. A11.· Reyna, Bessy. (2006, June 16). Hearing The Dixie Chicks with a new attitude. The Hartford Courant. p. A13.
Vol. 9, No. 10/11, Jul., 1992 of The Women’s Review of Books on JSTOR
www.powells.com/book/graded-spanish-reader-9780618527809 POEM MIENTRAS TU
POETRY FESTIVAL-PRODUCER
Bessy Reyna was the producer of a two-week poetry festival sponsored by the city of Hartford and the Hartford Public Library, bringing poets to all the neighborhoods in Hartford. This video shows the “Grand Finale” with the participation of 20 members of the immigrant communities in the area, reading poems in their own languages.