Name: Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora Anthology Reading
Start: 2025-06-01T14:00:00-0700
End: 2025-06-01T15:00:00-0700

Sunday June 1, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Cinema Salem - Theater 1

Experience the groundbreaking anthology "Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora" with performances by New England contributors Tobi Kassim, Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos, and Leticia Priebe Rocha. Highlighting the significant insights of undocumented poets, this brilliant compendium challenges misconceptions of what it means to live and write as an undocumented person in modern America. Deeply intimate, these works explore how to exist in the space between the familiar and the unknown, between the safety of silence and the desire to share. You don’t want to miss this rich and essential new chapter in the ongoing story of the eclectic immigrant experience and the United States itself.

Speakers

Leticia Priebe Rocha

Leticia Priebe Rocha is the author of the chapbook In Lieu of Heartbreak, This is Like (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and was a contributor in Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (Harper Perennial, 2024). Leticia earned her bachelor’s from Tufts University, where... Read More →

Jessica Cuello

Jessica Cuello’s most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize. Cuello is the recipient of a 2023 NYSCA Artist Grant and is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review. She teaches French... Read More →

Wangeci Gitau

Wangeci Gitau (she/they) is a Kenyan-born writer, activist, and teacher from the Gikūyū tribe living in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Wangeci lives by Audre Lorde’s words, “your silence will not protect you.” Her writing and activism center around experiences taking up space in... Read More →

Sunday June 1, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Cinema Salem - Theater 1 1 E India Square Mall, Salem, MA 01970 USA

The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Leticia Priebe Rocha

Jessica Cuello

Wangeci Gitau

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