Dancing Alone Together
"Dancing Alone Together" is a suite of poems by Raquel Guitierrez that call on the living ghosts of Tucson nightlife and the convivialities impacted with the onset of COVID-19. How have queer Latinxs been impacted? How do DJs find work and pay the bills when the clubs have all closed down? The project relies on anecdotal registers about the recent past.
About the Artist
Raquel Gutiérrez is an essayist, arts writer, and poet. Born and raised in Los Angeles, they currently live in Tucson, Arizona where they just completed two MFAs in Poetry and NonFiction from the University of Arizona. Raquel is a 2017 recipient of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Raquel also runs the tiny press, Econo Textual Objects (est. 2014), which publishes intimate works by QTPOC poets. Their poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, Asterix Journal, FENCE, Huizache, The Georgia Review, The Texas Review and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Raquel’s first book of prose, Brown Neon, will be published by Coffee House Press in the Spring of 2021. And Raquel's first book of poetry, Southwest Reconstruction, will be published by Noemi Press in 2022.
