Mayra Rodriguez Castro - FUGUE
A poetry reading in three passages

Mayra Rodriguez Castro presents her poetry interwoven and caught with the voices of Black poets, who inform her vocabulary of feeling. With each occassion, she envokes their words, thinking of authorship as an accumulative process rather than an individual act. Join us for an multi-vocal poetry reading in the spectral company of poets such as Ai Ogawa (1947-2010), Bob Kaufman (1925-1986), June Jordan (1936-2002), Sonia Sanchez (1939), Haki R. Madhubuti/ Don L. Lee (1934).

Thursday November 22, 8 PM
Readings on finding new gods

Religion and the beginning of Tourism
Descending and ascending in worship
The economy of belief
Stolen life
Unholy missions
Rennouncing our Fathers
Baraka's and Ogawa's chosen names
Sculptural emasculation
Goddesses of nothing
Naturalized afterbirths
Hand-painted mirrors
Negro dreams
Don L. Lee's new world
Fraudulent languages
Ordained stutters

Mayra Rodriguez Castro is a poet and translator from Bogota, Colombia. She is the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2018).