Poet Tato Laviera reads and teaches during 2-day visit

Laviera

Latino poet Tato Laviera will give several public presentations, as well as a student workshop, during a two-day visit to Cornell this week.

Laviera will give a talk in the course Latinos in the United States at 2:55 p.m. today, March 6, in 132 Rockefeller Hall and will give a reading, titled "Moods of Time," this evening at 9 p.m. in Balch Hall Unit 1 Lounge on North Campus.

On Friday, Laviera will lead a student writing workshop from noon to 4 p.m. in the conference room on the fourth floor of Rockefeller Hall. He will then give a talk titled "Poetry for Women" at Cornell's regular Café con Leche series at 6:30 p.m. in the Latino Living Center in Anna Comstock Hall.

He will be accessible at each event to sign copies of his book, AmeRican.

Laviera has read from his works at the White House as well as at more than 100 colleges and institutions in the United States, Europe and Africa.

His other books include La Carreta Made a U-Turn, Enclave and Mainstream Ethics. He has written eight plays that have been produced in New York.

Laviera's visit was coordinated by Diana Hernandez, a doctoral student in sociology, and Erika Ruiz, a masters student in the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. Sponsors for the visit include the U.S. Latina/o Graduate Student Coalition, Omega Phi Beta Sorority Inc., Sangre Taina: Puerto Rican Student Association, Latino Studies Program and the Latino Living Center.