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USPiM January 2010 Merida Event Photos

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Arrival dinner at La Casa de Frida: Most of our group in front of El Castillo at Chichen Itza

Anne Waldman in front of the Observatory at Chichen Itza: Mark Doty in front of the Observatory at Chichen Itza:

Chichen Itza with our fantastic guide, Luis: A young girl sang the Mexican National anthem in Maya language:

Train station behind ESAY, location of workshops: Mark Doty and workshop participants:

Audience at MEL and José Vicente Anaya reading an amazing excerpt from his book Hikuri, in Spanish and Nahuatl language:

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Pedro Serrano also gave an amazing reading at MEL: Mark Doty thrilled everyone with a special reading of poems:

Anne Waldman workshop (photo: David Ele Araujo):

Here we are with Don Antonio, one of the elder Maya h-men (shaman-priest), who performed a ceremonial blessing for us in Maya language, where he called the four winds to bless us and then sent them back again. We then drank hand-ground maize pozole with honey from small dried gourds. Don Antonio is 80 years old. Many years ago, when he received the Maya baptism, Maya shamans from far and wide traveled to attend.

We continued on to Dzibilchaltun. (Templo de las Siete Muñecas)

Briceida Cuevas Cob & Jonathan Harrington reading: Martin Espada reading at The Merida English Library:

Anne Waldman workshop (is that a machete?) Pedro Serrano's translation workshop:

We visited Hacienda Sotuta de Peon, toured the hacienda and their sisal factory and then took a ride on the mule train to visit another Don Antonio, who explained the typical Mayan home to us and the daily life, kitchen, grinding corn, tending the sisal, etc.

Butterfly pulled us along the rails through the fields of sisal

Don Antonio told us about life in a traditional Maya home.

Pura López Colomé, after her reading at MEL: Anne Waldman reading at MEL:

USPiM Reading in Los Angeles August, 2009

James DenBoer, Deborah Aguilar Escalante and Ileanna Portillo will be the featured poets at Stories Books and Cafe, 716 W. Sunset Boulevard @ Echo Park, on Saturday, August 22, 2009 from 7-9pm. Many thanks go out to Rafael F.J. Alvarado, a very busy poetry events promoter in Los Angeles, for helping to arrange this reading. The reading will be videotaped by Poetry L.A. and we will post a link as soon as it is available. Deborah's husband designed the poster for the reading: