Feb 13 2025

Radical Poetry & Performance Reading: Grisel Acosta & Jose-Luis Moctezuma

Radical Poetry & Performance Reading Series

February 13, 2025

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Address

Madison Street Books, 1127 W. Madison St., Chicago, IL 60607

Grisel Y. Acosta will also be one of the featured readers for our Radical Poetry & Performance Reading Series. She will be joined by Jose-Luis Moctezuma.

They will be joined by Gen Kwon and Erika Elkhart from UIC’s Program for Writers.

Contact

Daniel Borzutzky

Date posted

Feb 13, 2025

Date updated

Feb 13, 2025

Speakers

Grisel Y. Acosta

Grisel Y. Acosta (she/they) is a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. Their poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere (Get Fresh Books, 2021), was a 2020 finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.

Jose-Luis Moctezuma

Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a xicano poet, essayist, and researcher. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. He is author of chapbook, Spring Tlaloc Seance (Projective Industries, 2016) and Place-Discipline (Omnidawn, 2018).