Join us at La Casa's annual birthday celebration for the center's namesake, Julia de Burgos. Honoring this AfroBoricua poet, we are excited to have a reading, talk, and poetry workshop with renown poet Diannely Antigua. This event is open to all Yale affiliates!

The event is broken up into two sections:

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM "What We Tend Together: Poetry and Community Care” Reading and Q&A with Diannely Antigua
Held in celebration of Julia de Burgos’s birthday, this event brings together poetry, conversation, and shared inquiry around the idea of care as a communal practice. We invite attendees to listen to her reading as we collectively explore poetic craft, artistic responsibility, and the ways poetry can foster forms of listening that are collective rather than solitary. We invite attendees to explore how poems are shaped through attention, vulnerability, and risk, and how art can offer spaces for reflection and connection during periods of social strain. Rather than framing poetry as cure or solution, this event approaches art as a way of tending to language, to one another, and to the questions we carry together. Audience participation and questions are welcomed as part of this shared exchange. This celebration includes dinner, student performances, and a festive sweet ending as any birthday should!

7:30 PM - 8:30PM will be the poetry workshop with Diannely, co-hosted by Oye! and WORD

This event is in collaboration with Despierta Boricua, Dominican Students Association, Latina Women at Yale, Oye! Spoken Word, WORD: Performance Poetry, and the Yale Black Women's Coalition.

This event is co-sponsored by the Intercultural Affairs Council, the Yale Latino Networking Group, and the Yale Working Women's Network.

Thank you to our partners from the Yale College Community Care (YC³) program and the Yale Black Culture Network for raffling book copies!