Ferguson/Ayotzinapa:
CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond

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Featuring: Yesenia Montilla, Rio Cortez, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, David Tomas Martinez, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Urayoán Noel, and special guest Rodrigo Toscano.

This event brings together New York-based current and former fellows of the national Latina/o poets workshop CantoMundo to read from their work in solidarity with ongoing protests and mobilizations in and around Ferguson, Missouri, and the College of Ayotzinapa in Iguala, Mexico.Many of the poets reading are also participating in #CantoMundoLongestNight, a social-media offering of poems in honor of the countless black and brown bodies slain by state-sanctioned violence.

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Voices in Memory of Jack Agüeros

Jack Agüeros-1Join us as poets, writers, and scholars gather in the Faculty Room at Columbia University’s Low Library to pay tribute to one of the luminaries of Latino/a literature and American letters.

This is the first of a series of events planned in memory of Jack Agüeros, which will include a new production of one of his plays at El Museo del Barrio.

Scheduled to appear:
Martín Espada, Jesus Papoleto Meléndez, Mike Veve, Lauren Schmidt, Robert Hershon, Donna Brook, Urayoán Noel, Chris Brandt, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Julio Marzán, David Unger, Patrick Rosal, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Rich Villar, Natalia Agüeros-Macario

Born in New York City in 1934, Jack Agüeros was a community activist, poet, fiction writer, playwright, and translator.

Friday, October 17
at 6:00pm – 8:00pm
free to the public

Low Library, Columbia University
535 W 114th St, New York, New York 10027

Presented by:
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University
Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University
El Museo del Barrio
National Urban Fellows
Curbstone Press
The Medicine Show Theater