# Claudia Castro Luna

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Interview with Claudia Castro Luna

Interview with Claudia Castro Luna, recorded 17-JUNE-2022 via Zoom about her new book Cipota Under the Moon published by Tia Chucha Press.

Announcing the 2026 Jack Straw Writers

This year’s Writers Program Curator, Claudia Castro Luna, has selected the 2026 Jack Straw Writers: Natalie Pascale Boisseau, Kevin Dean, Elissa Favero, Jean Ferruzola, Rasheena Fountain, Gabriella Garcia, Maiah A Merino, BeeLyn Naihiwet, Diane Nguyen, Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, Sayantani Roy, and Rut…

Topographies – Gabriella Garcia

Gabriella Garcia‘s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is a series of poems, each overlaid on maps of rivers and mountains where the poems take place. In her conversation with curator Claudia Castro Luna, they talk about the story of her  opera A Spring Like This, her interest in writin…

Memory Riffing – Rasheena Fountain

Rasheena Fountain’s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is a series of poems that represent her relationship with her place, history, and her relearning of those relationships. In her conversation with curator Claudia Castro Luna, they speak on what the environment means to Rasheena, on…

Red Painted Woman – Maiah A Merino

Maiah A Merino’s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of poems that, in her own words “explores systemic contracts and agreements we have with those in our families as well as other societal systems.” In her conversation with curator Claudia Castro Luna, they talk about h…

The Queen Is Dead – Elissa Favero

Elissa Favero’s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of ekphrastic essays that explore the lives of women and visual art. In her conversation with curator Claudia Castro Luna, they talk about why she chooses not to introduce the artwork she’s writing about at the onset of…

Another Iberian Poet in New York? No! – Alejandro Pérez-Cortés

Alejandro Pérez-Cortés’s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of poems that play with absurdity and irony, and critique world history. In his conversation with curator Claudia Castro Luna, they talk about how he chooses the titles for his poems, why he leans into humor in…

The Space Where You Can Be the Most Vulnerable – Kevin Dean

Kevin Dean’s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is a debut collection of poems that, in his own words, “explores the link between the personal and the political, as well as how places shape our identities and memories.” In his conversation with curator Claudia Castro Luna, they talk ab…

Viewing Windows – Diane Nguyen

Diane Nguyen’s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is a series of vignettes that focuses on the challenges of motherhood as a queer millennial, the everyday life of queerness, and reproductive health. In her conversation with curator Claudia Castro Luna, they talk about what it’s like t…