Hosted by Imagining America

Join Imagining America for a book release party and reading with Puerto Rico born, Nuyorican raised, and Morocco based poet Victor Hernández Cruz. This event celebrates Cruz’s new book Guayacán (Ishmael Reed Publishing, 2022), a botanical historical search for the trees that once lined his Puerto Rican horizon and the music that shaped his life. The poems travel across languages, sounds, and perceptions; they escape ethnic confinement into the possibilities of international cultural fusion across the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas. 

On Guayacán:  “Improvisational, inspirational, sensational, international. Poetry delicious to the ears, infinitely pleasurable to pronounce.” -Sandra Cisneros, award winning poet and writer 

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