April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

–T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land, 1922.

Cruel April 2025 welcomes Diana Marie Delgado

Guest poet Diana Marie Delgado will be featured at a special edition of the annual
Cruel April Poetry Series
commemorating POC’s 50th Anniversary
April 2, 2025, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Syracuse University Art Museum.
The event will take place within the backdrop of the Syracuse University Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Joiri Minaya: Unseeing the Tropics, curated by
Cristina Pardo Porto.