The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Time: 5:30–8 p.m.
Where: Guggenheim New York, 1071 5th Avenue, New York, New York
Poet Diego Báez , author of Yaguareté White will read at the Guggenheim Museum’s Late Shift Juneteenth Celebration. He will read with other DreamYard Project’s Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium Fellows including Charlotte Abotsi, Nanya Akuki-Goodrich, Tristan André, Ayling Dominguez, Carlina Duan, e.jin, Lisa Green, Ellen Hagan, Dena Igusti, Seelai Karzai, Nikita Ladd, Juan Ospina, Andy Powell, Daad Sharfi, Simone Smith, Alondra Uribe, Jason Vanfosson, and M. Ezra Zhang. Taking place every third Thursday, Late Shift invites visitors to explore the galleries, participate in curated interactive experiences, and enjoy refreshments at a cash bar in Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda after-hours. The celebration is open to the public. Tickets are $30 general, $19 students, and free for Guggenheim members. Reserve tickets here.
About the book:
In Diego Báez’s debut collection, Yaguareté White, English, Spanish, and Guaraní encounter each other through the elusive yet potent figure of the jaguar. The son of a Paraguayan father and a mother from Pennsylvania, Báez grew up in central Illinois as one of the only brown kids on the block—but that didn’t keep him from feeling like a gringo on family visits to Paraguay. Exploring this contradiction as it weaves through experiences of language, self, and place, Báez revels in showing up the absurdities of empire and chafes at the limits of patrimony, but he always reserves his most trenchant irony for the gaze he turns on himself.
