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Rekdal, Paisley. "Enter." https://westtrain.org/west-a-translation-video-page/. Accessed 27 September 2023.
Rekdal, Paisley. West: A Translation. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2023.
Maldonado, Sheila. The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, edited by Leticia Hernández Linares, Rubén Martínez, and Héctor Tobar. San Fernando: Tia Chucha Press, 2017, p. 72.
Maldonado, Sheila. "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 14 July 2021. Web. Accessed 14 March 2024.
Maldonado, Sheila. "The Rituals Must Be Recorded." BOMB Magazine, 20 January 2023. Web. Accessed 14 March 2024.
Paisley Rekdal presents from West: A Translation (2023), a documentary hybrid work centered on the Transcontinental Railroad, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and racism in America. Rekdal shares video poems from the book's companion website and reads the essays corresponding to those poems. She shapes her reading around topics selected by the audience: labor, Mormons, Chinese death rituals, Robert Smithson (creator of Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake), the biracial experience, prostitution, and Hollywood's portrayal of women and the railroad.
Sheila Maldonado reads poems from her second book, that's what you get (2021), and a manuscript in progress titled bloodletters. Many of the poems incorporate visual components, and primary themes include New York City, Honduran heritage, and ancient Mayan culture. This reading was given as part of the Letras Latinas 20th Anniversary Reading with Gina Franco and Edgar Garcia.
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