Poets and literary historians, Janel Pineda, author of Lineage of Rain, and Ignacio Carvajal, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures, come together to exchange stanzas, ancestral lineage, and the importance of their voices in this nation. Together, they will share a collaborative digital archive of work and offer a conversation on how to continue to share their histories beyond the page.

About the Writers: Janel Pineda is a Los Angeles-born Salvadoran poet, educator, and the author of Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2021). A first-generation college graduate, she earned a BA in English from Dickinson College, where she was a Posse Scholar. Pineda has performed her poetry internationally in both English and Spanish, and been published in LitHub, PANK, The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNext, and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the U.S., among others. She is a part of the editorial team that founded La Piscucha…