Rooted in print as a political and poetic tool, POEMA SUELTO explores how language, translation, and small-scale publishing become acts of resistance:
Opening: Friday, August 2, 2025
Workshop: 14:00 (registration required – fee 400 DKK
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EXHIBITION & Book Show
Opening & Welcome Drinks: 16:30–18:30
@ Red Door Gallery: Møllegade 23a kld 2200 KBH N
Exhibition: free
Red Door Gallery presents POEMA SUELTO, featuring poetic broadsides and translation prints by Erica Rowan Mena, and a curated book show by La Impresora, the independent Puerto Rican poetry press and Risograph studio founded and co-directed by the poets Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Amanda Hernández— we'll be honored to have Nicole visiting Red Door, giving a workshop, and present throughout the exhibition opening.
ABOUT THE WORK:
La Impresora—established in 2016 and based in Isabela, Puerto Rico—is both a small‑scale press and print workshop. Its editorial mandate is to publish contemporary Puerto Rican poetry by underrepresented writers and to strengthen the dialogue between literature and visual art.
Working with non-toxic, vegetable-based inks and a sustainable, analog Risograph process, the press produces beautifully crafted, limited-edition artist books, chapbooks, broadsides, and zines. Through series such as Trabajo de Poesía, Primeros Libros, Poema Suelto, Crónica, and Independientes, La Impresora supports emerging writers, experimental formats, and self-managed publishing.
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Erica Rowan Mena’s work comprises letterpress-printed poems in translation and broadsides that foreground the experience of Puerto Rico, engaging themes of colonial legacy, resistance, environmental grief, and diasporic memory.
Mena is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and book artist. They hold an MFA in poetry from Brown University, an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa, and an M.Phil in Criticism and Culture from the University of Cambridge. Their book Featherbone (Ricochet Editions, 2015) won a 2016 Hoffer First Horizons Award. Their translation of the Argentine graphic novel The Eternaut by H.G. Oesterheld and F. Solano Lopez (Fantagraphics, 2015) won a 2016 Eisner Award. Their artist books are collected widely. Most recently they created the artist books Puerto Rico en mi corazón, a collection of letterpress printed broadsides by Puerto Rican poets in response to Hurricane Maria, printed in Spanish and English; and Gringo Death Coloring Book by Raquel Salas Rivera with collaborator Mariana Ramos Ortiz. They have taught Book Arts, Translation, and Poetry at Brown University, Mills College, Harvard University, and elsewhere. They currently live in Fiskars, Finland.
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14:00 – Workshop
POEMA SUELTO: Publication in Non-traditional Formats led by Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Fee: 400 DKK – limited places – register via
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Hands-on session crafting four different single-page publication formats inspired by Poema Suelto publications. Materials provided; participants may bring their own text.
EXHIBITION OPENING:
16:30–18:30 – Opening Drinks & Artist Meet-up
Browse the exhibition and book show; meet Nicole Cecilia Delgado and hear of opportunities to collaborate and be part of upcoming Red Door projects.
All are welcome. Exhibition free of charge.
*Workshop requires registration.
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ABOUT NICOLE CECILIA DELGADO:
Nicole Cecilia Delgado (www.nicolececiliadelgado.net) is a poet, translator, and book artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her writing, often reviewed within the framework of ecofeminism and land art, explores the subtleties and contrasts of everyday Puerto Rican and Caribbean life. Her collection of poems Periodo especial (Ediciones Aguadulce & La Impresora, 2019), deals with the fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico through the socioeconomic mirrors of the Greater Antilles. She recently published A mano/By Hand, an autobiographical essay about independent publishing (Ugly Duckling Presse Pamphlet Series 2020, La Impresora/EEE, 2023), and the bilingual poetry anthology Adjacent Islands/islas adyacentes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022, translated to English by Urayoán Noel). She is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a poetry press and Risograph print shop dedicated to small-scale editorial work in Puerto Rico. She is one of the 2025 Artists in Residence at Artica Svalvard, nominated by the Queen Sonja Print Award.
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