“We have to witness everything… You don't do it by yourself. That mode of looking is not like any individual feat; it is a feat of joining.”
Deborah Paredez
Deborah Paredez is a poet and performance scholar who teaches ethnic studies and creative writing at Columbia University. Her most recent poetry volume, Year of the Dog, was a New York Times Notable Poetry Book and the winner of the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award. 