The event will feature performances of poetry by contributors to a recently published, trilingual anthology of contemporary Haitian poetry, THIS LAND, MY BELOVED/TE MWEN RENMEN AN/CETTE TERRE, MON AMOUR, Co-editors Elizabeth Brunazzi, Denize Lauture, and Eddy Toussaint Tontongi, Trilingual Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2023, 481 pages. The historic collection represents a both cultural and humanitarian project which includes versions of poems in English, Haitian Creole and French by forty-seven authors writing in five different countries: Haiti, USA, Canada, France and Spain. Selected readings from the anthology will be in English. However, readings of brief poems in the other languages are available and welcome, at audience request. A period for engagement with the audience will follow the performances:
POETS IN THE ANTHOLOGY
Elizabeth Brunazzi
Gary Daniel
Michelle Marcelin
Denize Lauture
MUSICIANS (Drums)
Eric Alcin
Steve White
GUEST POETS
Daniel Wolff
Darly Renois