Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
The Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading for the book launch of Sergio Gorostiaga's *La Demora*. Readers include translator Nata Perla and writers Ivanna Baranova, Kayla Ephros, Keith Carr Walsh, and Isabel Yi Jimenez. Sergio Gorostiaga is a journalist, writer, educator, and political activist. He fled Argentina as a teenager in 1978 after the military dictatorship kidnapped his brother, Pablo. Living in exile, he worked as a street vendor in Spain for many years and later as a journalist. His book La Demora is a product of the writing he did during the dictatorship and his exile thereafter. Many of the 41 poems were later edited,rewritten, or expanded upon and were released by the Argentine publisher "Libros de Tierra Firme" in 2001. They are as much a reflection of exile, homelessness, and loss as they are a portrait of the ways the violence and terror of the 1976-1983 Argentine military dictatorship disrupted and ended many lives.