Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology edited by poet and critic RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ gathers more than 180 poets in Spanish and English spanning from the 17th century to the present. These poems bear witness to the beauty and power of this vibrant and expanding tradition: its profound engagement with pasts both mythical and historical, its reckoning with the complexities of language, land, and identity, and its vision of a nation enriched by the stories of immigrants, exiles, refugees, and their descendants.

Join us for an evening of poetry celebrating the richest, most revelatory collection of 21st-century Latino poetry ever published, followed by a dance party. Featuring DIANNELY ANTIGUA, RICHARD BLANCO, SANDRA M. CASTILLO, ADRIAN CASTRO, ARIEL FRANCISCO, RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ, FARID MATUK, PABLO MEDINA, DEBORAH PAREDEZ, GABRIEL RAMIREZ, and ALEXANDRA LYTTON REGALADO. Introduction by CARIDAD MORO-GRONLIER, poet laureate for Miami-Dade County; moderated by MAX RUDIN, president and publisher of Library of America.

You can catch some of these poems and poets in an intimate, one-of-a-kind format – as holograms! – during MBF week at the Poetry Holobox, located in MDC’s Building 1 Atrium.

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Buy Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology – González

Buy Good Monster – Antigua

Buy Homeland of my Body: New and Selected Poems – Blanco

Buy Eating Moors and Christians – Castillo

Buy Handling Destiny – Castro

Buy All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins – Francisco

Buy The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist – Matuk

Buy Sea of Broken Mirrors – Medina

Buy American Diva : Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous – Paredez