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Explore video readings and commentary from poets featured in Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology.

“The End of Poetry”

by

Ada Limón

Read by:
Ada Limón

“Notes on the Below”

by

Ada Limón

Read by:
Laurie Ann Guerrero

“The Distance between Love & My Language”

by

Andrés Cerpa

Read by:
Andrés Cerpa

“Ode to the Watermelon”

by

Aracelis Girmay

Read by:
José Olivarez

“Chino”

by

Brandon Som

Read by:
Brandon Som

“Llorona Soliloquy”

by

Carmen Giménez

Read by:
Marina de Tavira

“Letter to My Sister Who Lives in a Foreign Land”

by

Daisy Zamora

Read by:
Marina de Tavira

“Carta a una hermana que vive en un país lejano”

by

Daisy Zamora

Read by:
Marina de Tavira

“Year of the Dog: Walls and Mirrors”

by

Deborah Paredez

Read by:
Deborah Paredez

“El Salvador”

by

Javier Zamora

Read by:
William Archila

“Lejos”

by

Marjorie Agosín

Read by:
Marina de Tavira

“Far Away”

by

Marjorie Agosín

Read by:
Marina de Tavira

“En Mi Viejo San Juan”

by

Noel Estrada

Read by:
Justice Sonia Sotomayor

“My Voice”

by

Rafael Campo

Read by:
Richard Blanco

“Ars Poetica with Mother and Dogs”

by

Rio Cortez

Read by:
Rio Cortez

“1992/5th Sun/our present”

by

Steven Alvarez

Read by:
Steven Alvarez

“We Used To Call it Puerto Rico Rain”

by

Willie Perdomo

Read by:
Willie Perdomo

Ancestry & Identity

“Cristo Negro de Portobelo”

by

Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Read by:
Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Ancestry & Identity

“Mexican American Disambiguation”

by

José Olivarez

Read by:
José Olivarez

Ancestry & Identity

“Como Tú / Like You / Like Me”

by

Richard Blanco

Read by:
Richard Blanco

Earth, Landscape, & Myth

“Tortilla Smoke”

by

Natalie Diaz

Read by:
Ada Limón

Earth, Landscape, & Myth

“Sonata of the Luminous Lagoon”

by

Vincent Toro

Read by:
Vincent Toro

Family & Community

“Nani”

by

Alberto Ríos

Read by:
Brandon Som

Family & Community

“In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes”

by

Eduardo C. Corral

Read by:
Rigoberto González

Family & Community

“Put Attention”

by

Laurie Ann Guerrero

Read by:
Ada Limón

Family & Community

“Put Attention”

by

Laurie Ann Guerrero

Read by:
Laurie Ann Guerrero

First & Second Homes

“Exiles”

by

Juan Felipe Herrera

Read by:
Rigoberto González

First & Second Homes

“Tinta / Ink”

by

Mayra Santos-Febres

Read by:
Mayra Santos-Febres

First & Second Homes

“Tinta”

by

Mayra Santos-Febres

Read by:
Mayra Santos-Febres

Labor

“Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100”

by

Martín Espada

Read by:
Martín Espada

Language

“Un Beso Is Not a Kiss”

by

Francisco X. Alarcón

Read by:
Rigoberto González

Language

“Sueño en inglés goleta” (“The Broken English Dream”)

by

Pedro Pietri

Read by:
Urayoán Noel

Language

“The Broken English Dream”

by

Pedro Pietri

Read by:
Sonia Manzano

Language

“No Longer Ode” / “Oda indebida”

by

Urayoán Noel

Read by:
Urayoán Noel

Language

“Oda indebida” / “No Longer Ode”

by

Urayoán Noel

Read by:
Urayoán Noel

Music & Performance

“Trio Los Condes”

by

Victor Hernández Cruz

Read by:
Sonia Manzano

Music & Performance

“Duke Ellington, Santa Ana, El Salvador, 1974”

by

William Archila

Read by:
William Archila

Music & Performance

“Arroz con Son y Clave”

by

Willie Perdomo

Read by:
Willie Perdomo

Voice & Resistance

“The Black Maria”

by

Aracelis Girmay

Read by:
Aracelis Girmay

Voice & Resistance

“Operation Wetback, 1953”

by

Diana Garcia

Read by:
Diana Garcia

Voice & Resistance

“Operation Wetback”

by

Diana García

Read by:
Rigoberto González
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