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“My first heart knows where she is from / but still asks Puerto Rico for forgiveness for being born in Brooklyn.”
This year, we’re celebrating Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month with a poetry series inviting four Latinx poets to explore and respond to a work in MoMA’s collection.
To kick off the series, Elisabet Velasquez, a Boricua writer from Brooklyn, wrote a poem Papo Colo’s screenprint “Every American Has Two Hearts.” The piece connected deeply with Velasquez: “Both hearts contend with what it means to be a successful American in the United States while maintaining your own cultural identity, which, because of the history of colonization, can be at odds with your American identity.”
Read Elisabet Velasquez’s poem “Dos Corazones: After Papo Colo” on #MoMAMagazine → mo.ma/44Vd3Hn
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Papo Colo. “Every American Has Two Hearts (portfolio cover) from 2006: Trance/Borders.” 2006. Gift of Agnes Gund
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