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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Chin, Marilyn. A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 2018.
Franco, Gina. The Accidental. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019.
Maldonado, Sheila. "The Rituals Must Be Recorded." BOMB Magazine, 20 January 2023. Web. Accessed 14 March 2024.
Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4-August 31, 2024.
Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4-August 31, 2024.
Toledo, Natalia. "The Zapotec." Translated by Clare Sullivan. Modern Poetry in Translation, no. 2, 2021. Citation available for English version only.
Toledo, Natalia. "Intitulado." Asymptote Journal. Web. Accessed 7 May 2024. (Zapotec version)
Toledo, Natalia. "Intitulado." Asymptote Journal. Web. Accessed 7 May 2024. (Spanish version)
Toledo, Natalia. "Untitled." Translated by Irma Pineda and Clare Sullivan. Asymptote Journal. Web. Accessed 7 May 2024.
Toledo, Natalia. The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems. Translated by Clare Sullivan. Los Angeles: Phoneme Media, 2015.
Palacios, Gabriel. A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth I Sign. Portland, OR: Fonograf Editions, 2024.
Lozano, Brenda. Brujas. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2020. (Spanish edition)
Lozano, Brenda. Witches. Translated by Heather Cleary. New York: Catapult, 2022, pp. 17-23. (English edition)
Wunderlich, Mark. God of Nothingness. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Wunderlich, Mark. "My Local Dead." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 28 March 2022. Web. Accessed 6 December 2024.
Gina Franco reads from her second book, The Accidental (2019), selecting poems connected to her family's history as copper miners in eastern Arizona. She also reads an excerpt from "Throne," a long poem from a recently completed manuscript. This reading was given as part of the Letras Latinas 20th Anniversary Reading with Edgar Garcia and Sheila Maldonado.
O'odham poets Ofelia Zepeda, Su:k Chu:vak Fulwilder, and Amber Lee Ortega read poems in English and O'odham from the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed (April 4-August 31, 2024). Their poems and commentary focus on O'odham identity, experiences including displacement and violence, the importance of honoring the desert, and the resilience of individuals and communities. Traditional religion and Catholicism are discussed throughout.
In this trilingual event, Zapotec-language poet Natalia Toledo and translator Clare Sullivan read from Toledo's The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems (2015) and a forthcoming collection titled Deche bitoope / El dorso del cangrejo / Carapace Dancer. All poems are read in Zapotec (Toledo's originals), Spanish (translated by Toledo) and English (translated from the Spanish by Sullivan). Toledo reads from Mexico City via Zoom.
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.
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