In-Person: THE HORMONE OF DARKNESS by Tilsa Otta

Please join us for an in-person poetry reading celebrating The Hormone of Darkness by Tilsa Otta. She will be joined in conversation by translator Farid Matuk.

Pre-registration for this event is required. By pre-registering, you are verifying that you are fully vaccinated and will wear a mask throughout the entirety of the event.

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A bilingual selection of tender, transgressive poems by a Peruvian poet and multimedia artist.

In Tilsa Otta’s The Hormone of Darkness, we find a queer, Latinx person who has lived through iterations of authoritarian rule, and who answers these conditions by creating poetry that doubles down on a life force that precedes and exceeds received notions of the poetic. Here poetry is bawdy, fabulist, and spiritual—in short, it is alive. Otta has created a heaven where readers can go after they die.

Drawing from four volumes spanning Otta’s career, translator-poet Farid Matuk has curated a playlist we can dance and dream to, one that honors Otta’s drive toward liberation through both perreo in the club and transdimensional wandering among the stars.

Tilsa Otta has published five collections of poems and the queer novel Lxs niñxs de oro de la alquimia sexual. A multimedia artist, Otta works across video, illustration, and text. She lives in Mexico and Peru.

Farid Matuk has authored several books, and their translations have appeared in Kadar Koli, Bombay Gin, Translation Review, and Mandorla. They have received fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts and United States Artists. They live in Arizona.

Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com by no later than 14 days before the event. For other questions or access needs, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com.