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El Bello No Ser De Nuestros Cuerpos/Our Bodies’ Beautiful Not Being: A Reading For No Existe
In her poem “Nada,” Julia de Burgos invites us to “toast to our bodies’ beautiful not being” in response to the argument that “life is nothingness.” This reading, curated by poet Raquel Salas Rivera, expands on the title of *no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane María* by inviting an intergenerational group of poets to address the ways in which Puerto Ricans continuously create from “nothingness,” making a life, a way forward and even beauty, despite colonialism’s erasure and violence.
Readers include: Xavier Valcárcel, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, üatibirí, Irizelma Robles, Roberto Ncar, Sandra Nia Rodríguez, Francisco Félix, Veronica Reca, Gaddiel Francisco Ruiz Rivera, Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Mara Pastor, Rubén Ramos Colón, Yara Liceaga, Urayoán Noel, Willie Perdomo, Denice Frohman, Giannina Braschi, Edwin Torres, Elizabet Velásquez, and Joey de Jesús.
En su poema “Nada,” Julia de Burgos nos invita a que “brindemos por el bello no ser de nuestros cuerpos” y así responde al reclamo que “la vida es nada.” Esta lectura, curada por el poeta Raquel Salas Rivera, le da continuidad al título *no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane María* e invita a un grupo intergeneracional de poetas a examinar los modos en que les puertorriqueñes seguimos creando desde “la nada,” forjando una vida, una ruta hacia el futuro y hasta la belleza, pese a la invisibilización y la violencia del colonialismo.
Les poetas son Xavier Valcárcel, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, üatibirí, Irizelma Robles, Roberto Ncar, Sandra Nia Rodríguez, Francisco Félix, Veronica Reca, Gaddiel Francisco Ruiz Rivera, Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Mara Pastor, Rubén Ramos Colón, Yara Liceaga, Urayoán Noel, Willie Perdomo, Denice Frohman, Giannina Braschi, Edwin Torres, Elizabet Velásquez y Joey de Jesús.
Tickets will be available in early November.
Venue: The Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
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