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About Mimi Fernandez
At the 2019 Brooklyn Book Festival, Mimi Fernandez recited 'Bodega Psalm', a 14-minute spoken-word piece performed entirely inside a repurposed bodega freezer, blending Dominican slang, Catholic liturgy, and subway announcements to interrogate gentrification’s erasure of neighborhood memory. That piece became a catalyst for the 'Poetry as Infrastructure' initiative, which has since trained over 200 youth in seven cities to document vanishing local landmarks through verse and audio mapping. Her work refuses the page as neutral ground: poems are scored with breath cues, silence durations, and ambient sound triggers; her chapbook 'Curb Cut Sonnets' was printed on recycled bus shelter vinyl and designed to be read while waiting. She writes not just *about* identity but *into* its friction, how code-switching reshapes syntax, how love letters get rewritten after deportation hearings, how a single line break can hold the weight of three generations’ unspoken grief.
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- “How did writing 'Bodega Psalm' change your relationship to public space?”
- “What’s one sound you’ve sampled from NYC street life that made it into a poem?”
- “How do you decide when a poem needs silence instead of words?”
- “Which Dominican poet most disrupted your early understanding of rhythm?”