healing
Guerrero, Laurie Ann. I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2020.
Levin, Dana. Now Do You Know Where You Are. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2022.
Lozano, Brenda. Brujas. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2020. (Spanish edition)
Lozano, Brenda. Witches. Translated by Heather Cleary. New York: Catapult, 2022, pp. 10-11. (English edition)
Lozano, Brenda. Brujas. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2020. (Spanish edition)
Lozano, Brenda. Witches. Translated by Heather Cleary. New York: Catapult, 2022, pp. 142-147. (English edition)
Lozano, Brenda. Brujas. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2020. (Spanish edition)
Lozano, Brenda. Witches. Translated by Heather Cleary. New York: Catapult, 2022, pp. 17-23. (English edition)
Rafael Campo reads poetry and essays on the intersections between literature, medicine, and healing.
Dana Levin reads primarily from In the Surgical Theatre (1999). This reading was originally given with Louise Glück.
Luis J. Rodriguez reads from The Concrete River (1991) and Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (1993), along with poems that would later be collected in Trochemoche (1998). He also discusses his experiences with Los Angeles gang violence and the Chicano movement as well as his work with at-risk youth.
Linda Hogan reads early drafts of poems that would later be collected in Rounding the Human Corners (2008), along with poems from The Book of Medicines (1993) and excerpts from her novel Solar Storms (1995). The reading concludes with questions from the audience.
Dana Levin reads from her fifth book, Now Do You Know Where You Are (2022), sharing poems written during a time of anxiety about the future that engage with the body, philosophy, grief, and healing. She closes by reading "House of Feels," an essay from her memoir in progress about becoming a poet.
In this bilingual reading, Brenda Lozano reads from her novel Brujas (2020) in the original Spanish, as well as from Witches (2022), the English translation by Heather Cleary. The novel reflects on women, power, and language, centering on a shaman or bruja from an indigenous community in Mexico. Manuel Muñoz reads a portion of the English translation.