Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles
Hosted by The Center for California Literature. Kyle Carrero Lopez’s electrifying debut poetry collection centers three interconnected forces: social life, US-Cuba relations, and the lives of Black people in the United States and Cuba. Through familial, satirical, and geopolitical lenses, Party Line considers how countries—and people—wield power over those they have othered. The collection features a series meditating on tensions embedded in party spaces. Carrero Lopez challenges assumptions that these spaces are apolitical or purely escapist, revealing unexpected connections between individuals’ actions and those of the state. His work expands bridges between US and Cuban art by developing an urgent poetics around the material conditions of the US embargo and challenging whitewashed images of Cuban Americans in the US imagination. with Rhiannon McGavin and Summer Farah.