POETRY ALLOWED PRESENTS a Live Poetry Performance with Qui Que Aviles following the documentary screening of Las Muertes Más Bellas del Mundo/The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World. Stories of loss, healing, and new possibilities come together in an artistically-crafted feature length documentary. The film follows poet Quique Aviles in his journey to find answers and healing from the traumatic events that led to his migration north. That journey leads Quique to write “Las Muertes Más Bellas del Mundo,” a powerful, heart-wrenching poem forty years in the making. His goal: to reclaim his dead and the dignity of a nation torn apart by war and mass displacement. Threaded within Quique’s journey are portraits of Salvadoran-Wachintonian artists whose oral histories and archival images tell an intimate story of a community resolving trauma to find identity, belonging, and joy in their new home. Collectively, they uplift the power of art to heal in a world fraught with legacies of injustice.