Audio + Video
Mexican Poetics: A Lecture-Performance
Celebrated Mexican poet, essayist, and editor Luis Felipe Fabre offers a vivid and insightful multimedia crash course on contemporary Mexican poetry. Enjoy an evening of music, live performance, and… More
Activism and Art: Celebrating Mexican Music and Literature
Activism is infused with a Latin beat for this event, hosted by beloved TV journalist, Maria Hinojosa. Novelist and playwright Veronica Gonzalez Peña joins writer-performer Rubén Martínez to discuss… More
Women of Mexico
Celebrate the role that brave and uncompromising women writers play in Mexican fiction, poetry, journalism, and playwriting. A rare opportunity to hear from some of Mexico’s leading contemporary voices,… More
Cuba in Two Acts
As the United States begins to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba, a more complex view of the island is becoming more available to Americans whose access to the island… More
Elena Ferrante: Frantumaglia
Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has become a worldwide sensation with her Neapolitan novels. Ferrante’s longtime English-language translator joins Festival authors to discuss the work of this famously enigmatic author.… More
Free Expression, A Reality Check
Mexico’s sensitive sociopolitical issues are often presented as solely Mexico’s challenges, obscuring the roles played by other Latin American countries and the United States. This public debate is the… More
Obsession Series—Michael Musto: Watching and Re-Watching Old Movies and TV Shows
An intimate conversation with Michael Musto on the comfort and beauty of checking out from the present. More
Say It Loud! Stories from New York’s Worker-Writers
Poetic language moves from metaphor to insurgency in these stories about New York’s global working class, developed under the guidance of poet Mark Nowak. More
Narco-Narratives: A Lecture-Performance
Sexo! Violencia! Drogas! Is there such a thing as narcoliterature? Or, does “narco” inevitably trump “literature”? In this lecture-performance, professor and award-winning author Oswaldo Zavala charts the evolution of… More
Prison Branding in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Part One: Prison Products)
The movement to privatize prisons demands the creation of a public image that can attract sponsors and investors, even if it obfuscates how men and women are warehoused in… More