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).

Tuesday, November 20, 8 PM
Readings for getting wet with rain

Thinking of Black Bob Kaufman writing
The Ancient Rain while drunk
Water undressing the monument
The subterranean majestic
Cleaners of capitol toilets, the nagative hands
Accessing the archive of the tactile
History as an erotic faculty
Melting walls
Muscles arching over the city
Reflexes
Everything has been felt already

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).