Puerto Rican poet Elisabet Velasquez performs an excerpt of her new poem about the complexity of dual identity, inspired by Papo Colo’s provocative screenprint “Every American Has Two Hearts.” Follow Elisabet on a walk through of her childhood neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, as she grapples with “what it means to be American and Puerto Rican at the same time” and how that has informed her approach to creativity.
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