Salones de belleza: Escritores at Aeromoto / The Beauty Salons: Writers at Aeromoto

Between 2017 and 2020, the Aeromoto public arts library in Mexico City organized a monthly series of bilingual readings. The gatherings, called “Salón de belleza” (Beauty Salon), brought together more than 70 poets and writers from many generations, contexts, and traditions, predominantly from Mexico and the United States, but also from various parts of Latin America and Europe. In these events, translation was used to bridge linguistic and cultural gaps between poets separated by political borders, and helped to create a space in which literatures of different origins and approaches could coexist. The result of this collective initiative was a unique cross-section of some of the most intriguing writing taking place in the Americas during the second decade of this century. “Salones de belleza: Escritores at Aeromoto” gathers work from these writers—in a completely bilingual edition—many of whom are appearing in translation for the first time.

Contributors: David Abel , Alexis Almeida, Andrea Alzati, Karloz Atl, Mario Bellatin, Brandon Brown, Ruby Brunton, Juan Carlos Cano, Garrett Caples, Francesca Capone, Ricardo Cázares, Carlos Cociña, Corina Copp, Bruno Darío, Elisa Díaz Castelo, Jessica J. Díaz, Luis Felipe Fabre, Carla Faesler, Cynthia Franco , Rocío Gallardo , Paola Gallo , Forrest Gander, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Peter Gizzi, Margo Glantz, Tilghman Goldsborough, Barbara González Miranda, Maricela Guerrero, Diana Hamilton, Cole Heinowitz, Tanya Huntington, Jacob Kahn, Nurit Kasztelan, Anne Kawala, Evan Kennedy, Shiv Kotecha, Tatiana Lipkes , Xel-Ha López Méndez , Megan Marsh, Jonathan Minila, Robin Myers , Tilsa Otta, Elisa Palacio, Andres Paniagua, Francesco Pedraglio, Micaela Piñero, Karen Plata, Rodrigo Quijano, Christopher Rey Pérez, Mariana Rodríguez Espinoza , Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza, Judah Rubin, Jerónimo Rüedi, Raquel Salas Rivera, Daniel Saldaña París, Kit Schluter, Yolanda Segura, Javier Taboada, Daniela Tarazona, Leonardo Teja, Truong Tran, Juan Carlos Villavicencio, Asiya Wadud, Jackie Wang, Alli Warren, Noah Warren, Magnus William-Olsson, Isabel Zapata.