Viva la Vida: Poetry and the Landscape of our Personhood
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The National Museum of Mexican Art in collaboration with Mather presents Viva la Vida, a monthly workshop series tailored for creative agers. Adults ages 55 and better are invited to join us at the Museum for a writing circle. This month, we’re delighted to welcome poet and librarian, C.T. Salazar from Mississippi, who will lead participants in a writing circle. In this writing circle, we’ll discuss and explore the ways our physical geography interacts with our many inherited, genealogical geographies through the meeting-place that is our lives. Using Delilah Montoya’s exhibition Nuestra Calidad and a range of poetry examples we’ll write poems mapping our place and unifying our many landscapes.
Coffee and treats will be provided from local establishments. This program is free, but registration is required. To sign up, email angela@nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org
Bio:
C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books 2022) was named a 2023 finalist for the Theodore Roethke Memorial Award. Salazar is the 2021 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in poetry. His poems have most recently been featured in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Poetry Northwest, Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Salazar is a professor at Delta State University where he directs the University Archives and Museums.