Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series

Sandra Cisneros and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

Introduced by Rigoberto Gonzalez and Peggy Robles-Alvarado

Oct 05, 2023

Bestselling author Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street) presents her first collection of poetry in 28 years, Woman Without Shame, alongside audaciously innovative poet and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (TwERK), who reads and performs from Village, her first book in nearly a decade. Cisneros’ Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her search for home — in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart. Diggs’ Village — part poetry collection, part soundscape — examines how trauma reshapes lineage, language, and choice in propulsive and formally inventive verse. Aesthetically wide-ranging but spiritually unified by a fascination in the shape-shifting power of diasporic reinvention, Cisneros and Diggs present a multigenerational evening of poetry and performance that spans and widens the field of possibility for contemporary American poetry.

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