Poetry Reading with Alan Pelaez Lopez
Alan Pelaez Lopez's debut poetry collection, Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien, is an intimate poetic portrait of growing up undocumented in the United States. Through the collection, Pelaez Lopez urges readers to question their inheritance and acceptance of "settler rage, settler fear, and settler citizenship," so that alternative worlds can be imagined and actualized. This reading will highlight poems from the collection as well as unpublished work that addresses stories of colonialism in Mexico and the U.S., queer resistance, and the role of art in shifting politics and culture.
This event is part of the Afro-Mexican Speaker Series and is open to the public.