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).

Saturday November 24, 8 PM
Readings on company

Spectral company
Stripping for June Jordan
and Sonia Sanchez
Beautiful jaws
Tongue on Tongue
Textual hermaphrodisms
Internal re-arrangements
Living mouths
Shared breath pressure by singular exhaustion
The structure of craving
The sustenance in want
Dancing with Al Young, or is its opposite
stillnes next to someone.

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).