Conversation on the seminal work of Haitian Dominican Poet Activist Jacques Viau Renaud between Amaury Rodriguez and Ariel Francisco. Thursday Feb 27th 6:30-8:30pm @wordupbooks JACQUES VIAU RENAUD "one central reason why Viau and his poetry matter is that he offers a viable alternative narrative to these entrenched ideas about "fatal conflict, "... His poetry, his activism, and the literary circles he moved in—all of these point to the possibility for imagining a different Haitian-Dominican relationship." Raj Chetty AMAURY RODRIGUEZ is a Dominican-born translator and independent researcher. He is a frequent contributor to the Marxists Internet Archives (MIA) and co-author, with Raj Chetty, of Dominican Black Studies, a special issue of The Black Scholar journal. Ariel Francisco is the author of A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020) and All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets, The American Poetry Review, The Florida Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. The Miami New Times named him one of the Five Florida Writers to Watch in 2019. #bookdiscussion #haitian #dominican #dominicanwriters #haitianwriters #dominicanhaitian #haitiandominican #decolonizeayitikiskeya #decolonizeayiti #decolonizekiskeya #decolonizehaiti #decolonizedominicanidad #healing https://www.instagram.com/p/B77ImB6p0Gf/?igshid=hbv9hbieckox