Join us for a reading and book launch of Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration, just out from Haymarket Books and edited by Diana Marie Delgado. Like A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America’s incarceration system. Sin à Tes Souhaits, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal will read from the anthology. 

Sin à Tes Souhaits is a poet, editor, and consultant from East Las Vegas. His poems have been published in The Sun, Rumpus, and The Academy of American Poets, among others. Sin teaches at Nevada State University.

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera es el autor de seis poemarios, entre ellos lo terciario/ the tertiary, que fue semifinalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra transgénero. // Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is the author of six poetry collections, including lo terciario/ the tertiary, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Magical/Realism, longlisted for the National Book Award, and Beast Meridian, recipient of a Whiting Award. She is a 2021 NEA Fellow and holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California.

In addition to the in-person reading, most Reading & Lecture Series events are streamed live on our website.