Accompanying the exhibition Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island, on view at El Museo from September 18 through January 11, this event features Cuban poets Katherine Bisquet, Legna Rodriguez Iglesias, and Mandy Suarez, who will read excerpts from their recent publications and speak with artist Coco Fusco.
Katherine Bisquet has published the poetry books Algo aquí se descompone (2014) and Uranio empobrecido (2021) and compiled the volume Cielo Raso: Antología de poetas cubanos en Cuba (2025). She directed the short documentary film Inside San Isidro (2023) and is the co-creator of Rialta Magazine’s column “Cuban Cinema in Quarantine”. She was a resident of Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 2021/2022 in Berlin, won the 2022 Ciudad de Alcalá Poetry Prize, and received a scholarship from Florida International University’s program for threatened Cuban researchers in the humanities.
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias’ most recent publications include the novel Paroled (2025), the short stories collection Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés (2017), and the poetry books Ilusiones de botánica (2023), Dame spray (2023) and La merma: un producto en existencia (2025). Her essays and chronicles are compiled in Crítica madre. Lenguajes de la diáspora en Estados Unidos desde Miami (2023) and Princesa Miami. Atlas político y de población (2024). She regularly publishes articles in the Revista Rialta and Incubadora magazines. In 2016 she received the Premio Casa de Las Américas for theater and the Paz Prize for Poetry awarded by The National Poetry Series.
Armando (Manday) Lorenzo Suárez Cobián is a poet, fiction writer, and filmmaker. The author of the poetry volumes Corre ve dile (1985), Nueva York no eres tú (2013), and La muerte y sus ojos (2025), as well as the short story collection El libro de los amores breves (2014), his work has appeared in anthologies and journals in the Americas and Europe. He has been a dialect coach in films such as Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel) and Che (Steven Soderbergh) and co-directed the documentary NOLIMITS.
Please note that most of the participating poets will present their readings in Spanish only.
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