Photo Gallery: September 17, 2012, Washington, D.C.

the hottest ticket in town

(photo credit: Eduardo C. Corral)

the stage

(photo credit: Dan Vera)

the audience

Eduardo at the Folger's new podium (1)

(photo credit: Dan Vera)

Eduardo at the Folger's new podium (2)

(photo credit: Dan Vera)

Carl at the podium

(photo credit: Dan Vera)

post-reading discussion using poets'

statements as springboards

(photo credit: Dan Vera)

Eduardo responding

(photo credit: Dan Vera)

Eduardo's excerpted statement:

"Spanish and poems come to me in pieces: the flash of a phrase, a jumble

of syntaxes and dictions, verbal hurdles, the pursuit of epiphany and meaning.

But something magical happens when I'm writing a poem. I'm not singing

in English or Spanish---I'm singing in my mother tongue"

Carl responding

(photo credit: Dan Vera)

Carl's excerpted statement:

"I think of syntax as being related to the erotic. In syntax,

embedded clauses and subordination are the equivalent of

sexual stalling. It's like foreplay."

view from the seats

(photo credit: Sandra Beasley)

*

Letras Latinas programming

in Washington, D.C.

is made possible

thanks to the generosity

of the Weissberg Foundation

and individual donors.