Paulo Ramos
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10 a.m. – Noon, Feb. 20, 2026
About the workshop: Embodied poetics: letters in breath. This workshop is conceived as a study of the body, art, literature, anthropology, and the senses. It departs from a form of writing produced in and through the body, understood as a poetic space. As a result of this dynamic, a breathing letter will emerge, a living letter. The workshop proposes a collective process of poetic creation, of writings that breathe and speak of the experience of becoming, of becoming an element through water: in its process of condensation through rain; as the river that flows toward the sea and transforms into a wave; as the brackish waves of the sea, which thicken within sensory experience; and as the body in the touch of ice, which dissolves and melts under the temperature of this poetry produced by corporeality.
About the presenter: Paulo Ramos is born from the womb of his mother, Terezinha Ramos de Jesus. He is an Afro-Brazilian visual artist, performer, actor, and poet whose multidisciplinary work spans video, performance, and poetry. His acclaimed poetry book, Corpos d’água, was published in 2023 in Brazil. And in 2026, the book, titled Bodies of Water, will be released in the United States, in English, by NP-PRESS and Counterpath Press. Ramos' compelling performance piece, presented at the 12th At First Sigh New Works Festival Indiana University and in venues across São Paulo and Tepoztlán, gave rise to the thought-provoking and, art installation “Bodies of Water, a way” in Center Research of Race and Ethnicity and Society Paulo Ramos is a Ph.D. in Social Science in Gender and Black Studies in PUCSP. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo,Paulo Ramos continues to explore and amplify the narratives of Afro-Brazilian identity.
Learn more about Paulo Ramos: https://www.paulo-ramos.com/
This event is sponsored by the University of Arizona LGBTQ+ Institute and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies.