This launch event for the anthology Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration (2025) includes readings by three poets from the book, following an introduction to the project by editor Diana Marie Delgado. Sin à Tes Souhaits reads poems focused on mass incarceration and the cycles of violence it perpetuates. Roque Raquel Salas Rivera reads poems in Spanish and English about el Oso Blanco, a prison built with the labor of enslaved people and prisoners in Puerto Rico. Vanessa Angélica Villarreal reads an essay on Game of Thrones viewed as a story of Latine identity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. A series of short poem-films shown at the event is not included for reasons of copyright.
by Diana Marie Delgado; includes excerpts from the introduction to Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration that differ from the published version.
Like A Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration. Edited by Diana Marie Delgado. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025.
Differs from published version.
Sin à Tes Souhaits. "On Crip." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 21 August 2024. Web. Accessed 10 April 2025.
Uncollected.
Differs slightly from published version in English.
Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel. Like A Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration. Edited by Diana Marie Delgado. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025.
Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel. Like A Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration. Edited by Diana Marie Delgado. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025.
From the forthcoming collection Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La canción de Cenex, hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya (2025).
by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Differs from published version.
Villareal, Vanessa Angélica. Magical Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders. New York: Tiny Reparations Books, 2024, pp. 325-327, 329-336.
