Declarative Sentences
Voices in Memory of Jack Agüeros
Join us as poets, writers, and scholars gather in the Faculty Room at Columbia University’s Low Library to pay tribute to one of the luminaries of Latino/a literature and American letters.
This is the first of a series of events planned in memory of Jack Agüeros, which will include a new production of one of his plays at El Museo del Barrio.
Scheduled to appear:
Martín Espada, Jesus Papoleto Meléndez, Mike Veve, Lauren Schmidt, Robert Hershon, Donna Brook, Urayoán Noel, Chris Brandt, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Julio Marzán, David Unger, Patrick Rosal, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Rich Villar, Natalia Agüeros-Macario
Born in New York City in 1934, Jack Agüeros was a community activist, poet, fiction writer, playwright, and translator.
Friday, October 17
at 6:00pm – 8:00pm
free to the public
Low Library, Columbia University
535 W 114th St, New York, New York 10027
Presented by:
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University
Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University
El Museo del Barrio
National Urban Fellows
Curbstone Press
The Medicine Show Theater