Migrant Horizons

May 5, 2022, Hanes Gallery

As a culmination of the interdisciplinary readings and discussions in the Humanities Institute’s Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Precarity, seminar convener Lucy Alford brought poet-scholar Edgar Garcia (English and Creative Writing, University of Chicago) to Wake Forest for two events. First, a performance/talk open to the WFU community entitled “Migrant Horizons: Poetry and Storytelling in Scenes of Crisis,” in which Garcia combined story, poetry, and audio-video recordings from his ethnomusicological research in the Southwest. Second, a workshop the following day took place with the Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Precarity, featuring Garcia’s poetry and translations as well as his just-released volume of lyrical prose, Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis.