Roberto Tejada and Jennifer Nelson’s poems move accross scales of experience, weaving collective calamities with what’s most proximate, visible to the touch: A forest floor, razor-wired parks, the charged surface of a painting. In a poetics shaped by both myth and matter, Nelson and Tejada unearth histories deposited in soil, attending to the unspoken, summoning both descendants and the unborn toward one another. “This is the rule of ghosts./ They endure as much as they’re remembered/ though they carry loss like a song” (Nelson)

Guest introduction by Christopher Rey Pérez

This event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.