The Woodberry Poetry Room’s 2024 T. S. Eliot Memorial Reading honors poet, artist, activist, filmmaker, and force for the good: Cecilia Vicuña. Vicuña will be introduced by her longtime collaborator: the award-winning poet and translator Rosa Alcalá (author of You and MyOTHER TONGUE).  
  
 

A consummate creator, word-weaver, wavemaker, and interdisciplinary visionary, Vicuña is the author of over 30 volumes of poetry and visual art, including WordWeapons, co-published by RITE Editions and Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2023) and New & Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña, edited and co-translated by Rosa Alcalá, Kelsey Street Press (2018). Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at major institutions around the world, including MALBA, Buenos Aires; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile; Tate Modern; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

A pop-up installation featuring selected "palabrarmas/word-weapons" will be temporarily on view at the Poetry Room in conjunction with this program (stay tuned for additional information). We are grateful to Cecilia and her exceptional team for generously providing us with permission to display a selection of her powerful, pacificist works. This event is made possible through the generosity of the T. S. Eliot Foundation.
 

In-Person Attendance:  Carpenter Center Theater, Lower Level, 24 Quincy Street,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Free and open to the public.
 

Online Attendance: Livestreaming available via the WPR YouTube Channel.

We welcome you to contact us with any questions about this event. We can be reached by email at poetryrm@fas.harvard.edu or via phone at (617) 495-2454. Persons with disabilities who would like to request accommodations or have questions about physical access may contact Houghton Library's Administrative Coordinator Le Huong Huynh by email or at 617-495-2443 in advance of the reading.
 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT: We wish to thank our colleages at the Carpenter Center for generously offering us the use of their venue for this eventt.

IMAGE: Courtesy of Bruno Savelli.