testimony
Rodrigo, Balam. Libro centroamericano de los muertos / Central American Book of the Dead. Translated by Dan Bellm. México: Ala Ediciones, 2022.
Linda Hogan reads poems from her collections Calling Myself Home (1978), Seeing through the Sun (1985), Savings (1988), and The Book of Medicines (1993). The reading also includes an essay from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995).
Roberto Tejada reads from Mirrors for Gold (2006) and Full Foreground (2012). This reading was originally given with J. Michael Martinez and Carmen Giménez Smith at an event titled Latino/a Poetry Now.
In this bilingual Spanish and English reading, Balam Rodrigo reads from Libro Centroamericano de los muertos / Central American Book of the Dead (2022), which recounts the lives and violent deaths of migrants crossing through Chiapas, Mexico, memorializing their suffering as they journeyed north. English translations by Dan Bellm are read by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
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