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The authors Kianny Antigua and Velia Vidal will dialogue about her works with Andrea Change and Mary Hawley.

“enajenada, de Kianny Antigua, es un poemario sobre la experiencia humana más visceral (opresión, dolor, angustia, otredad, desesperanza, encuentro con la sombra y resurgimiento) representada desde la voz y el cuerpo que componen las experiencias estéticas de las feminidades situadas geopolíticamente en el Caribe”. – Lauristely Peña Solano.

“Tidal Waters, by Velia Vidal and translated by Annie McDermott, is an epistolary, fictional account of one woman moving towards happiness in the black community of Colombia’s Pacific coast. Vidal offers a vision of how creating something (for your community, for yourself) is a way of reading and writing your way into a known place and a new self.” – Charco Press

This program is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Spanish & Portuguese Department, the Latina & Latino Studies Program, the Black Studies Department, the English Department and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities of Northwestern University.

Bilingual event in English and Spanish.