cuba

Margarita Engle delivers a lecture on poetry as a vehicle for historical exploration; she also reads poems from The Lightning Dreamer (2013) and Silver People (2014).

In this matinee performance for middle school students, Margarita Engle discusses Mountain Dog (2013), her writing process, and life in Cuba; she also reads from and discusses The Surrender Tree (2008).

Natasha Wimmer reads her translations from the Spanish of Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue, and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. She opens with a translation-in-progress of Dalton's poems written in 1970s Cuba before turning to Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires (2024), a novel about the Spanish conquistadors' stay in Tenochtitlan in 1519. She closes with an excerpt from Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives (2007), which follows fictional young poets in Mexico City.