Eduardo C. Corral and Tyree Daye
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January 21, 2025 at 7:00PM ET
Location: Riggs Library
Join us for a reading featuring poets Eduardo C. Corral and Tyree Daye, hosted by Carolyn Forché.
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by January 14th to Patricia Guzman, 202-687-6294, pg654@georgetown.edu. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after January 14th.
Cayucos
–Eduardo C. Corral
boats used by African emigrants to reach Spanish islands
A girl asleep beneath a fishing net
Sandals the color of tangerines
Off the coast of Morocco
A moonlit downpour, God’s skeleton
Bark, dory, punt, skiff
“Each with a soul full of scents”
Day after day spent shaping
A ball of wax into a canary
Little lamp, little lamp
The word “contraband” arrived
In English in the 16th century via Spanish
Throw your shadow overboard
Proverbs, blessings scratched into wood
The tar of my country better than the honey of others
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Read more about Eduardo C. Corral.
The Lord’s Corner
–Tyree Daye
I would drop to my knees for the littlest things
mind filled with a light returning
from aluminum-foil crosses hanging on a porch
I was made to believe so hard
that I was going to die
My family said I wore bells on my ankles
I learned an ancient dance
Then the light like the deer
leaped off into time
& once because my cousins called my body a soft thing
because so desperately they said they wanted to kill
the woman I hid inside me
dared as they often did with their hands
to let my eyes wonder
where the thickest shine sat
we heard the last child had their mind stolen
the circles of their iris turned to coal
when they looked directly at the Lord’s house
I’m trying to find where I feel most at home
I believe it’s inside me
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