Puerto Rico

This launch event for the anthology Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration (2025) includes readings by three poets from the book, following an introduction to the project by editor Diana Marie Delgado. Sin à Tes Souhaits reads poems focused on mass incarceration and the cycles of violence it perpetuates. Roque Raquel Salas Rivera reads poems in Spanish and English about el Oso Blanco, a prison built with the labor of enslaved people and prisoners in Puerto Rico. Vanessa Angélica Villarreal reads an essay on Game of Thrones viewed as a story of Latine identity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. A series of short poem-films shown at the event is not included for reasons of copyright.