VIDEO
92nd Street Y: Introducing Solmaz Sharif March 2022
“Frugal musicality is how Kristeva describes depression’s speech,” she explains to me in her poem “Beauty,” and I wonder if we’ve made enough of Solmaz Sharif’s musicality, which is only as frugal as the blues.
The Poetry Project: Sheila Maldonado & Carina del Valle Schorske March 2022
The dancefloor, the street, the train, the ocean—Sheila Maldonado and Carina del Valle Schorske animate cartographies of gathering in their work, the places where we come together in exuberance and grief.
Latino Media Summit: “Pa’lante” with Rubén Blades June 2021
Spiritualism is always going to be present in everything we do.
Brooklyn Bookfest: “A Life in Reading” with Vivian Gornick & Adrienne Miller January 2021
How do we narrate a literary life? How do we make it seem not only possible but politically and spiritually worthwhile?
CBS Hispanic Heritage Month: Interview About Bad Bunny October 2020
It’s really only from a U.S. market perspective that Latin music seems like a series of booms.
Translating Islands at USC: Reading & Roundtable with Nicole Delgado & Raquel Salas Rivera November 2019
...ways that languages may find their way to us as gestures, even when they don’t find their way to us intact...
AUDIO
The Year of Bad Bunny January 2023
Cuidao con mi corillo que somos un montón. He’s willing to think out loud, make mistakes, and learn.
Switched On Pop Podcast: Cat Power & Rubén Blades August 2021
Every song about New York is a pop song.
Longreads Podcast: The Writer-Editor Relationship June 2019
The experience of editing was my entryway into imagining myself as a writer.
Longreads Podcast: Reading & Interview About Dancing Backup May 2019
I got interested in all the Puerto Rican performers we haven’t heard of behind the story of the brighter stars.
The Creative Independent: Interview February 2022
I don’t want to be subject to the alienation that both the digital world and capitalism impose on all of us. I have a pretty strong desire to break through and make contact: for me, both journalism and dancing are about finding a form for that desire.
Leyendo Lat Am: Interview February 2021
The first mark that language makes on us is a rhythmic mark, a musical mark. So, to me, that’s where language’s fundamental emotional force resides.
First Person Plural: Interview December 2019
It’s better in Latin America where they say it plural, “Las Américas.”
The Poetry Project Newsletter: Interview January 2019
I guess when I was younger I thought I’d either quit or be cured.