F210.
Home in Florida: A Home Tour & Discussion by Latinx Writers
Friday, March 25, 2022
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
Contributors explore the themes of home and uprootedness and how they must sometimes coexist. For a different joint reading that uses the full advantages of the Zoom platform, we will bring attendees into our homes for a two-minute tour focusing on those spaces that allow us to write (and why), followed by a three-minute reading. Then we will discuss and take questions from the audience.
Participants
Anjanette Delgado is a novelist and journalist who writes about identity, displacement, and heartbreak, often through immigrant characters from Caribbean countries. Author of The Heartbreak Pill and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho, she holds an MFA in CRW from FIU.
Richard Blanco is the youngest, first Latino, and first openly gay person to serve as the presidential inaugural poet. Author of two memoirs and three poetry books, his honors include awards from the University of Pittsburgh, PEN, the Paterson Prize, Lambda Literary, and Education Ambassador for the Academy of American Poets.
Ariel Francisco is the author of Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head and A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship). He is an assistant professor of poetry at Louisiana State University.
