Letras Latinas partners with Split This Rock...

This "event" was originally slated to take place on the evening of Wednesday, March 25th at Busboys and Poets at 450 K Street in Washington, D.C. Instead, Letras Latinas has commissioned our two distinguished poets to put together a DIY video of themselves reading their poetry. They will each post their video on the web sometime during the last week of March. To be sure, this is an experiment of sorts--an effort at creativity and resourcefullness; call it a gesture of resilence in these unprecedented times. Our hope, of course, is that each of these videos will take on a life of its own, complementing each other. We'd love to get a sense how many people these videos will reach. So, it goes without saying that we would welcome your feedback.

HEIDI ANDREA RESTREPO RHODES is a queer, second-generation Colombian/Latinx immigrant, poet, artist, scholar, and activist. She is the author of the poetry collection The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), which won the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Her book was recently profiled in Poets & Writers annual Debut Poets feature. Her creative work has been published, exhibited, and performed in As/Us, Pank, Raspa, Word Riot, Feminist Studies, Huizache, the National Queer Arts Festival, The Sick Collective, the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, SomArts, and Galería de la Raza, among other places. She was a semi-finalist for the 2017 92-Y/Unterburg Poetry Center Discovery Contest. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Political Theory at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Born in Arizona and raised in California, she currently lives in Brooklyn. She can be found on Instagram at: @vessels.we.are

TERI ELLEN CROSS DAVIS is the author of Haint, (Gival Press, 2016) winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Her second book, A More Perfect Union, won the 2019 Charles B. Wheeler Prize, awarded by The Journal, and is forthcoming. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective. She has received fellowships to attend the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is the recipient of a Meret grant from the Freya Project and a 2019 Sustainable Arts Grant. Her work can be read in: Academy of American Poets, Auburn Love’s Executive Order, Avenue, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Figure 1, Gargoyle, Harvard Review, Kestrel, Little Patuxent Review, Natural Bridge, North American Review, MiPOesias, Mom Egg Review, Pacifica Literary Review, PANK, Poet Lore, Poetry Ireland Review, and Tin House. She is the 2019-2020 HoCoPoLitSo Writer-in-Residence for Howard County, Maryland, adjunct professor at George Washington University, and the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. She lives in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis and their two children.