Marjorie Agosín is the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies at Wellesley College. She is an award-winning poet and human rights activist whose work addresses issues of social justice as well as the pursuit of memory. The United Nations honored her with a leadership award for her work in human rights. Her most recent books include Braided Memories / Memorias trenzadas and Maps of Memory.
Painting by Lydia Rubio, “That sea at night is a sea of fragility”
The sky over tonight’s sea is a mirror of glittering fireflies. Writing expands, attentive to this limitless se...
Raquel Rabinovich is a poet of the visual world. In the following meditation, Marjorie Agosín reflects on her fluid and ever-changing art.
When Raquel Rabinovich came to speak at Wellesley College in...