El Caribe: Poetry Reading and Handmade Cuban Book Exhibit

About this event

Poetry reading in Spanish and Haitian Creole UNM professor Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz and weaver Karim Jaekel.

●Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz, a professor at UNM in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, is from Puerto Rico. He published a book of poetry entitled Breaths with UNM Press and will read a few of his poems, both published and forthcoming.

●Karim Jaekel will read from Unbroken Nostalgia: Haitian Kreyòl Poetry in Cuba by Cuban/Haitian poet Hilario Batista Félix as well as a poem by Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz.

~ Handmade Cuban literary art books designed and produced by Ediciones Vigia in Matanzas and Casa Editorial Cuadernos Papiro in Holguín.

~ Authors include Cubans José Martí, Silvio Rodríguez, Nicolas Guillén, and José Garcia Makú, as well as English-language authors such as Emily Dickinson and Margaret Randall.

~ Ediciones Vigia’s widely acclaimed books are cleverly constructed by hand in unexpected and inventive ways, and illustrated with original paintings and collage, which employ paper as well as diverse materials such as burlap, string, stones, and feathers. Designer/artists include co-founder and principal artist Rolando Estévez Jordán.

~ The Casa Editorial Cuaderno Papiro is known for its handmade paper, eighteenth-century typography, and old printing machines (1900 Mergenthaler Linotype and 1899 Chandler and Price presses).