José Felipe Alvergue is a graduate of both the Cal Arts Writing and Buffalo Poetics programs. He lives in Wisconsin where he is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Literature and Transnationalism, and is the author of gist : rift : drift : bloom (2015) and precis (2017).
For Untested Address, he will be reading from precis and from scenery, reflections on subjection and resistance.
Fabián Cereijido is an artist and art historian. Originally from Argentina, Fabián lived in exile in Mexico City for 8 years before moving to NYC, where he studied and worked for 20 years. Fabián earned a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from UC San Diego and is the Assistant Curator of “How to Read el Pato Pascual”, a PST LA/LA exhibit currently on view at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and the Luckman Gallery in LA. He is a Lecturer at CSU Long Beach, Art Division and Antioch University.
For Untested Address, Fabián will be reading a text in which he discusses the history, poetry and traction of the phrase “Aparición con vida”, coined by the Madres of Plaza de Mayo in 1980.
Cog•nate Collective develops research projects + public interventions + experimental pedagogical programs in collaboration with communities across the US/Mexico border region. Since their founding in 2010, their work has interrogated the evolution of the border as it is simultaneously erased by neoliberal economic policies and bolstered through increased militarization — tracing the fallout of this incongruence for migrant communities on either side of the border. They currently work between Tijuana, MX, San Diego, CA, Santa Ana, CA and Los Angeles, CA.
For Untested Address, Cognate Collective will present: (des)compuestos: An exercise in close-listening, soft-speaking and (de)composing political addresses. An exercise in (de)composing political speech [addresses] through close-listening and soft-speaking.
Alana de Hinojosa is a poet pursuing a dissertation in the UCLA Department of Chicana/o Studies that is concerned with histories of migration, displacement, loss, and erasure. Perhaps most important to her is the (re)imagining of alternative and more just poetic geographies. Her poetry has been published in Huizache, Duende, Four Chambers, Track//Four, and elsewhere. Alana is a graduate of Hampshire College and was raised in Davis, CA.
For Untested Address, she will be reading from her in-progress manuscript of poetry based on her dissertation research.
Jacobo Sefamí, from Mexico City, is Professor at UC Irvine, and Director of the School of Spanish summer program at Middlebury College. He has published as a critic several books, articles and interviews on Latin American poetry. He is also a fiction and non-fiction writer. His novel “Los Dolientes” was translated and published in English as “Mourning for Papá. A story of a Syrian Jewish Family in Mexico City”. He also edited “Vaquitas pintadas” an anthology on cows, with poems, short-stories and aphorisms.
For Untested Address, he will be reading from his travel narratives about Syria and Turkey.