Alan Pelaez Lopez: DISASTER IS A POLITIC • Cleaver Magazine

Poetry by Alan Pelaez Lopez
DISASTER IS A POLITIC

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Alan Pelaez Lopez is a poet, installation, and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México. Pelaez Lopez’s debut visual poetry collection, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System, 2020), was a finalist for the 2020 International Latino Book Award. They are also the editor of When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent (University of Arizona Press, 2023). Outside of art, they regularly organize with and/or support queer and trans Black migrants inside detention and prisons. Pelaez Lopez is an Assistant Professor at UC Davis.