Poetry of Resistance
The Department of Landscape Architecture partners with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and the Douglass Residential College for the Margaret O. Cekada Memorial Lecture 2024, with renowned poet Denice Frohman.
Frohman will perform as part of an evening titled, "Poetry of Resistance." Her poetry explores language, lineage, queerness, and the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico. In her first multimedia installation called "Our Terms Have Changed," Frohman explored food and land sovereignty in Puerto Rico as part of a new exhibition called Climate Futurism, which premiered Fall 2023 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. The work was inspired by her own maternal family’s history as coffee farmers in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico on land that was eventually sold and turned into a luxury Airbnb rental.