What do we carry as writers? What do we claim? And what becomes possible when we make room for one another?

In this episode of Write… Reflect… Reimagine®, Dr. Vilma Luz Cabán reflects on What We Carry, What We Claim: Latina Writers on Voice, Memory, and Becoming, a Casa de María Publisher literary gathering held inside Dwight Hall at Yale University during Hispanic Heritage Month.

Moving beyond the event itself, Dr. Cabán explores the experiences, memories, histories, silences, and people we carry into our writing, and the choices we make about what ultimately belongs on the page. She considers the complexities of representation, the freedom to tell the narrative that is uniquely ours, and why expanding the literary landscape requires making room for many voices rather than expecting any one writer to represent an entire community.

Through reflections on her literary relationships with Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Dr. Melissa Coss-Aquino, Adriana Erin Rivera, and Elisabet Velásquez, she considers another essential part of the writing life: the people who encourage us, challenge us, create opportunities for us, and sometimes believe in our voices before we fully believe in them ourselves.

At its heart, this episode is about authorship, literary community, creative evolution, and the possibilities that emerge when writers make room for one another.

The gathering at Yale began with two questions:

What do we carry? What do we claim?

Dr. Cabán left with a third:

What do we create?

Listen, reflect, and consider one final question:

What are you ready to create?

YOUTUBE PRESENTATION: https://youtu.be/sU2T_YWOBEQ?si=7KOMv7YZum_Oram5

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