Last week, on February 5th and 6th, Make Literary Productions held the Mexico City half of the Lit & Luz Festival, a series of collaborations and performances by artists and writers from Chicago and Mexico City. On Thursday night, we–Daniel Borzutsky, Joel Craig, Martin Seay, Marvin Tate, Luis Felipe Fabre, and I–read at Casa Refugio:
On Friday morning, I gave a talk about Poems While You Wait, aka Poemas Mientras Esperas, at Claustro Sor Juana with the help of Mexico City visual artist and writer Veronica Gerber Bicecci and translator extraordinaire Paul Grens:
Then on Friday night at the Museo del Chopo, we performed a Live Literary Magazine (the first part of which took place in Chicago in October) to the theme of “Archive” exploring how people document their lives and experiences–historically and in the present–in both places. Veronica & I reprised the piece “I Used to Live Here,” which we performed in English in Chicago, but in Spanish this time:
Thanks to the MacArthur Foundation, POETRY, Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl, Museo del Chopo,UNAM,Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Conaculta for their support, thanks to Benjamin Anaya Gonzalez for his emceeing skills, and thanks to everyone who came out!