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Floricantos y Tumbaos: A Panel on Latinx Music in Poetry
March 6 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm CST
Free
Join us as we explore the fusion of Latinx music and poetry at this Library of America event. This panel will feature Latinx poets discussing how Latin American musical traditions have inspired, shaped, and informed their creative work.
Our featured authors include flutist Excy Guardado (Ceiba ili), renowned poet Urayoán Noel, and hip-hop artist Marco Cervantes (Mex Step) all of whom will engage in a rich discussion with moderator Amalia Ortiz. Experience the talents of these artists who will share intimate renditions of their work.
Light refreshments will be served.
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Panelists
Marco Cervantes, Mexstep, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he researches Black and Brown solidarity and cultural overlap. He also performs as a solo hip-hop artist and is a member of the group Third Root.
Excy Guardado is a cultural educator and Musician from Honduras, dedicated to connecting migrant communities, supporting Indigenous rights, and advocating for environmental justice. On stage, she is known as Ceiba ili, after the statuesque tree, la Ceiba, the Mayan tree of life. She lives with her niece, Excy Veronica. They share a love for music, dancing, and best of all, reading.
Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Transversal (Arizona, 2021), named a Book of the Year by the New York Public Library and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Noel’s other publications include the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Award, and, as translator, No Budu Please by Wingston González (Ugly Duckling, 2018), adjacent islands by Nicole Cecilia Delgado (Ugly Duckling/DoubleCross/La Impresora, 2022), and Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman, 2018), a finalist for the National Translation Award. A Letras Boricuas fellow in poetry, Noel has been a fellow and faculty at CantoMundo and the Macondo Writers Workshop and is an editorial advisor for Latino Poetry (Library of America) and a board member of the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center. Originally from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Noel lives in the Bronx and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for NYU’s MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish and as editor-in-chief of Intervenxions (The Latinx Project).
Moderator
Amalia Ortiz is a Tejana spoken word performer, playwright, and author of 2 award-winning books of poetry. She was awarded the 2020 American Book Award for Oral Literature, and appeared on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO and the NAACP Image Awards on FOX. She was awarded a City of San Antonio Individual Artist Grant and most recently, her band, Las Hijas de la Madre, were awarded a Democratizing Racial Justice Artist Residency from the Mellon Foundation to complete their new project Diatribas Punk. Amalia received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
