WORKS ONLINE or LIVE
UPCOMING
Thursday September 21, 2023: Please join me at a joint Get Fresh Books LLC + Ugly Duckling Presse reading with Mirene Arsanios, Lauren de Sá Naylor, and Mercy Tullis-Bukhari at KGB Bar at 7:30!
Friday September 29, 2023: Please join me at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe for a Friday Night feature set at 9 PM!
RECENT
Join in person or virtually: Sunday, July 18, 2021 NYC POPS UP at the Africa Center, curated by LaTasha N. Diggs: BLUE PEPPER & WEST INDIAN PANCAKE on Tito Puente Way, 2 PM - 7 PM. Streaming live on @nycpopsup IG.
Virtual: the online premiere of Working Intersections at Lincoln Center, up now!
TOUCH::FEELING::READING on June 23 2021, virtual, Bureau of General Studies, Queer Division, in celebration of Muriel Leung’s WE ARE THE SWARM, with Ica Sadagat, Catalina Ouyang, Saretta Morgan, Muriel Leung, Joey De Jesus, & Christina Olivares.
Sunday, August 9th, 2020 at 4 PM EST for the Bowery Poetry No Desk Duet with Yesenia Montilla, hosted by Mahogany L. Browne.
Watch: Diagnosis, a videopoem I created for The Poetry Project about a body/covid-19/NYC as part of the collaborative Looking for Mama’s Titty with Lydia Cortés, Alba Delia Hernández and Sheila Maldonado.
Delight: In Air Talk, a digital collaboration of handwritten poems with Wendy’s Subway and No, Dear.
Read: These poems from Botanic América, a selection from the forthcoming Ungovernable, featured in Aster(ix). (Read the whole poetry issue.)
Read: Audre Lorde Taught Us: Christina Olivares on Audre Lorde’s Important Legacy in Lambda Literary, interview with Mahogany L. Browne. “One beauty (primacy, urgency) in Lorde’s archives is her deep identification with her role as a teacher. Her classes in Berlin were recorded (and archived) for a documentary, but she also states in those recordings that she intends them to live past her, and at times she will address future listeners: in those moments, I perk up, headphones on, ready to catch the tether she’s throwing out into her blank and unknown future.”
POEMS, ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS ONLINE
Sequence from “Botanic América” in Aster(ix) Journal (2020)
Video-poems “Diagnosis” (solo) and “Looking for Mama’s Titty” (collaboration) for The Poetry Project (2020)
“Elegy” in Air Talk, a digital collaboration between No, Dear and Wendy’s Subway (2020)
"The Lot" & "Understanding as an Imaginative Act in the Americas," poems in The Rumpus (2019)
"Thoughts on the Erotic in Audre Lorde's Archive," essay, Mahzin Magazine (2018)
"Girl" & "Bronx Antipastoral," poems published by Apogee Journal (2018)
"Portrait," a poem published by Hayden's Ferry Review (2018), then reprinted by the Center for Book Arts as a broadside (2018) and on the Academy of American Poets website (2019)
"A Better Tomorrow," 500-word micro-essay collaboration published by Kenyon Review Online (2017)
"Bettering American Poetry 2," interview about allyship, VIDA Blog (2017)
"Teaching the Map," poem published by Five Quarterly Review (2014)
POEMS, ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS in PRINT
"They Talk in Spanish Over Our Heads," poem published in Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation, Volume 18, Spring 2020.
"Productive Antagonisms: Saretta Morgan Interviews Christina Olivares," interview published in Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing, University of Nebraska Press (ed. Natalie Diaz), 2019.
"You Were Always," essay on queer identity and the Pet Shop Boys song "You Were Always on My Mind / In My House," published by Lumina Journal (2018)
"DSM," poem first published as part of the Black Poets Speak Out issue of No Dear Magazine (2017) and reprinted in Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 (2018)
"Vivir," bilingual broadside poem in collaboration with visual artist Gabriel García Roman, published by Parallax Press (2017)
"At Twelve," poem published in the anthology The Dream Closet, (ed. Matthew Burgess), Secretary Press (2015)