CANYON, Texas (KFDA) – WT will host an award-winning Mexican poet who will share poetry that honors the perspectives of Native American and Latin American customs and traditions.
Judith Santopietro will read “Latin Poetry and the Stories of the Americas” at 6:30 p.m., Oct. 18, in the Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall.
The Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages will host the event, which is free and open to the public.
“The Spanish WT program has brought in female Hispanic poets every fall semester since 2017,” said Dr. Andrew Reynolds, Professor of Spanish. “We are very excited about Judith’s visit and how she gives voice to indigenous cultures that are often forgotten or left out when we think of ‘Hispanic’ or ‘Mexican-American’ stories.”
“I became a poet because I wanted to recreate in my poems those extraordinary characters of oral history – the nahuales, the shaneques, the flying women and other extraordinary beings,” Santopietro said.
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