colonization

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Dominguez, Angel. Desgraciado (the collected letters). New York: Nightboat Books, 2022, p. 2.

Track

Dominguez, Angel. Desgraciado (the collected letters). New York: Nightboat Books, 2022, pp. 108-109.

Track

Dominguez, Angel. Desgraciado (the collected letters). New York: Nightboat Books, 2022, pp. 101-102.

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Shanahan, Charif. Trace Evidence. Portland, OR: Tin House, 2023.

Reading

Rebecca Seiferle reads a long sequence, "On the Island of Bones," from her poetry collection Wild Tongue (2007). This reading for the 2009 Tucson Festival of Books was originally given alongside Demetria Martínez.

Reading
Heriberto Yépez delivers a lecture on contemporary experimental fiction in Latin America.
Reading

Poetry Center Summer Resident Lehua M. Taitano gives an interactive reading of poems from her collection Inside Me an Island (2018). She also presents her latest work, a video poem created for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's "A Day in the Queer Life" project. This reading was originally given alongside Bojan Louis.

Reading

Summer resident Angel Dominguez reads poems rooted in ancestors and community as they protest colonialism, fascism, and gentrification. Dominguez first reads from across their published works: Black Lavender Milk (2015), RoseSunWater (2021), and Desgraciado (the collected letters) (2022). They close the reading with recent poems, including one written the night before the reading and others from a manuscript in progress titled Don't Tell My Mother If They Kill Me.

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