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Borzutzky, Daniel. Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2021.
Borzutzky, Daniel. Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2021.
Cody, Anthony. Borderland Apocrypha. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020.
Cody, Anthony. Borderland Apocrypha. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020.
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Maldonado, Sheila. "Fruit Survivor." Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana, no. 18, 2022, p. 88.
Morgan, Saretta. Alt-Nature. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2024.
Morgan, Saretta. Alt-Nature. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2024.
Morgan, Saretta. Alt-Nature. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2024.
Morgan, Saretta. Alt-Nature. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2024.
Morgan, Saretta. Alt-Nature. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2024.
Matuk, Farid. Moon Mirrored Indivisible. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Briante, Susan. 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Poems. Noemi Press, 2025.
Poet and performance artist Cecilia Vicuña joins with poets and translators Daniel Borzutzky and Rosa Alcalá to read at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in honor of Vicuña's exhibit Sonoran Quipu. Borzutzky and Alcalá both read forthcoming work, as well as pieces by Vicuña they have translated into English. Vicuña reads and improvises from Spit Temple (2012), a selection of past performances transcribed, edited, and translated by Alcalá.
Saretta Morgan reads extensively from Alt-Nature (2024), her first full-length collection. Rooted in southern Arizona, her poems consider the militarization of the US-Mexico border and the legacies of colonialism in American culture.
Farid Matuk reads poems from his collection Moon Mirrored Indivisible (2025), considering themes of masculinity, state violence, and racism. He closes with a poem by Susan Briante, with whom this reading was originally given.
Susan Briante reads from 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Works (2025). She primarily reads new poems from the collection that consider themes of anti-capitalism, revolution, and family. Collages included in the book are shown throughout. Briante opens with a poem by Farid Matuk, with whom this reading was originally given.
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