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Crafting Nuestra América: The Literary Work of Diaspora
Friday, March 10, 2023
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Latine literature must often weave through race and ethnicity, and indigeneity and gender, nation and border, to reflect the who and what of diaspora. This dynamic way of seeing the world, unbound by politics and form, often distinguishes how Latine artists see and embody their work. The writers on this panel invite you to explore how diaspora as a socio-aesthetics, rooted in social histories and aesthetic forms, is told and reimagined across geographies, giving way to new forms and identities.
Participants
Juan Carlos Reyes has published the novella A Summer's Lynching and fiction chapbook Elements of a Bystander. His work has appeared in Waccamaw, Florida Review, and Moss, among others. He is the former board president of Seattle City of Literature and teaches creative writing at Seattle University.
Grisel Y. Acosta is a full professor at CUNY-BCC and creative writing editor at Chicana/Latina Studies Journal. They have written Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere (Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Finalist); published in Latina Outsiders; Best American Poetry; Acentos Journal; Kweli Journal; and are a Macondo Fellow and Geraldine Dodge Poet.
Urayoán Noel is a National Translation Award finalist and the author of eight books of poetry, including Transversal (2021), which was a New York Public Library Book of the Year and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Noel teaches at NYU and at Stetson's MFA of the Americas, and recently taught for Macondo.
Connie Pertuz Meza, a Colombian American published in The Rumpus, Kweli Literary Journal, and elsewhere. She is a three-time VONA alum and board member, two time Tin House participant, 2021 Aspen Words Ricardo Salinas Latinx recipient, and a 2022 Pen America Emerging Fellow.
