Latinx Poetry Now: A Reading and Conversation with J. Michael Martinez + aracelis girmay

aracelis girmay makes poems, multigenre texts, picture books, and collages. In collaboration with artist Valentina Améstica and the Center for Book Arts, a limited edition chapbook of her new work will be out later in the fall. She is the editor of So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket, 2023) and is the editor-at-large of the Blessing the Boats Selections. She is also on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund. For her work girmay was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She will begin teaching at Stanford University in fall 2023.

John Alba Cutler researches in the fields of Chicano/a/x and Latino/a/x literature and culture; his teaching comprises courses in these fields as well as in modern and contemporary American literature. His book Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature (Oxford, 2015) argues that Chicano/a/x literature provides a powerful counter-discourse to sociological accounts of assimilation in the post-WWII era. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume from Cambridge in the series Latinx Literature in Transition, has published articles on Chicano/a/x and Latino/a/x literature and culture in American Literary History, English Language Notes, and Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and contributed chapters to the Cambridge Companionto Transnational American Literature, American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement.