This a letter to Jocelyn Carranza, who were 11 years old when she gave us her life after being harassed by her US schoolmates because of the immigration status of your parents. This is a letter about Latino Poetry, the comprehensive, exhaustive, urgent, groundbreaking volume for the annals of United States literature, compiling 186 voices pacing from past to future of our literature, edited by Rigoberto González and published by The Library of America. This letter is the first of our live readings series, funded in part by Poets & Writers, as well as public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and by the Brooklyn Arts Fund of The Brooklyn Arts Councils, also supported by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

This letter is addressed to the beloved one who is always suspicious yet never reveals: our essay on the recent novel "The Palace of Eros," by the Uruguayan-American Caro de Robertis, in the context of the current genocide, systemic violence, and the communitarian enlightenment through bodily emancipation that offers another taste for those classic narratives.

This episode was developed with the support of the NYSCA Artist grant 2024.

This letter is addressed to the friends we have lost in the hope that literature, our literatura, will provide a pact of love. In that hope, as well, we delve into the spiritual pacts that books can offer, such as the ones in novels by Mariana Enríquez, Ursula K. Le Guin, José Donoso and Zora Neale Hurston.

This episode was developed with the support of the NYSCA Artist grant 2024.