Borderlands Poetry: A Conversation and Reading with Eduardo C. Corral
Natalie Diaz and [archi]TEXTS present "Borderlands Poetry: A Conversation and Reading with Eduardo C. Corral."
About the Conversation
What are the physical and metaphysical conditions of borders and borderlands? How do borders span the imaginary, emotional and physical landscapes of the human condition? Join a conversation and reading with poet and educator Eduardo Corral exploring the imaginative, bodily, societal, political, emotional, physical and linguistic impacts of borders to us as human beings, our connections and our artistic bodies of work.
Fundraising for No Mas Muertes
This conversation benefits No Mas Muertes (No More Deaths), a humanitarian organization based in southern Arizona dedicated to increasing efforts to stop deaths of migrants in the desert. According to No Mas Muertes, their mission is to “end death and suffering in the Mexico–U.S. borderlands through civil initiative: people of conscience working openly and in community to uphold fundamental human rights."
If you are interested in joining this conversation, either in-person or through the live-streaming event, please consider donating to No Mas Muertes.
Live-Streaming
Participants have the option to view this event via in-person or live-streaming. To watch this conversation through live-streaming, please visit https://asunow.asu.edu/asulive at the date and time listed.
About Eduardo C. Corral
Eduardo C. Corral is the author of "Slow Lightning," which won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. His second book, "Guillotine," will be published by Graywolf Press in 2020. He's the recipient of Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize and the Hodder Fellowship, both from Princeton University. He teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at North Carolina State University.