Caribbean Poetry Reading: Marcelo Morales and Aureamaría Sotomayor | April 29, 2016
Apr 29, 2016
12pm - 1.30pm
CSRPC, 5733 S University Ave
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Marcelo Morales, Cuban Poet and Author: born in Cuba in 1977, is a member of a generation of writers who came of age in Havana during the island’s “Special Period” of severe post-Soviet economic crisis. Morales is the author of the poetry collections Cinema (1997, Pinos Nuevos prize) and Materia (winner of the 2008 Julián del Casal prize), and the novel La espiral (2006). Morales edited and introduced Como un huésped de la noche, an anthology of poetry by Roberto Branly, published in 2010. His work has appeared in Chicago-based MAKE Magazine and is forthcoming in MAKE X, a best of MAKE anthology.
Aurea María Sotomayor, Puerto Rican Poet/University of Pittsburgh: Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and Cultural Studies programs at the University of Pittsburgh. She is one of the most prolific poetic voices from the 70s Promotion in Puerto Rico. Her poetry collections include Sitios de la memoria (1983), La gula de la tinta (1994), Rizoma (1998), Diseño del ala (2005), Cuerpo nuestro (1987)and Artes poéticas (2014), among others. She was also co-founder of the cultural, literary, and post-modern theory oriented journals Postdata, Nómada and Hotel Abismo in Puerto Rico. She translated Derek Walcott’s The Bounty and has published two anthologies: De lengua razón y cuerpo (1987) on nine contemporary women poets and Red de voces (2011).
Light lunch will be served. Free and open to the public.
Presented by the Center for Latin American Studies, with support from the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the CSRPC.
For more information, contact Claudia Giribaldi:
cgiribaldi@uchicago.edu