Join us online for a discussion of the poetry of José Olivarez.
 

We hope to discuss some of the following poems:

"Home Court"
"(citizen) (illegal)"
"The Day My Little Brother Gets Accepted Into Grad School"
"I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At"
"A Mexican Dreams of Heaven" and "My Family Never Finished Migrating We Just Stopped"
"Getting Ready To Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains"
"Love Poem Beginning with a Yellow Cab"
"poem where no one is deported"
"Cal City Winter"
"wherever i'm at that land Is Chicago"
"Mercedes says she prefers the word 'discoteca' to the word 'club'"
"February & my love is in another state"
"No Time to Wait"
"Ars Poetica"
"Bulls vs. Suns, 1993"
"Upward Mobility"
"Maybach Music"
"Sunday Love"
"despecho hour at the casa azul restaurante y cantina"
"Mexican Heaven [forget heaven & its promises of gold—]"
"Let's Get Married"
"yes the business folk"
"if humans have different dialects then maybe plants do too"

Please feel free to come even if you have not read these poems.

For more information or to get on our Poetry Event email list, email poetry@prattlibrary.org.
 

Photo credit: Mercedes Zapata