Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies The Arts Cafe at Kelly Writers House
Monday, 11/4
Latina Poetry Night
Marta López Luaces, Lizabel Mónica, Azahara Palomeque, and Mercedes Roffé
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
Co-sponsored by: Latin American & Latino Studies Program, The Hispanic and Portuguese Studies Department, and the Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLAC) Steering Committee
The Latina Poetry Night brings to Penn four renowned Latina poets of the Spanish-speaking world, all of them based in the U.S. Hosted by the Kelly Writers House, the program in Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS), the Hispanic and Portuguese Studies Department, and the Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLAC) Steering Committee, these poets will offer a combined bilingual reading featuring their most recent work, and will discuss the experience of living in translation, the role of Latinx poetry in the United States, and their immigrant experiences coming from Argentina, Cuba and Spain. Panelists include poet, novelist and translator Marta López Luaces; transdisciplinary artist and writer Lizabel Mónica; poet, writer and journalist Azahara Palomeque; and poet and artist Mercedes Roffé.
Marta López Luaces is a poet, novelist and translator. She has published five books of poetry: Distancias y destierros (1998), Las lenguas del viajero (2005), Los arquitectos de lo imaginario (2011), Memorias de un vacío (2000) and Después de la oscuridad (2015). Los arquitectos de lo imaginario was finalist of the prestigious award Ausiás March (2011). (2010). Her poetry was also translated into Italian under the title of Accento Magico (2002). Others selection of her poetry work appeared in English in the following anthologies: Reminiscenses of Echoes (Belladonna, 2018) As a novelist she published El placer de matar a una madre (Madrid: Penguin Random House, Ediciones B, 2019) and Los traductores del viento (2013), which was awarded the International Latino Book Award 2014.
Lizabel Mónica is a Cuban transdisciplinary writer and artist. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. She has been invited to talk about her creative and scholarly work at several universities in the United States, including Princeton, Brown, and Columbia University. Mónica is the author of numerous fiction and poetry works which have been translated and published in many anthologies. Web: www.lizabelmonica.com.
Azahara Palomeque is a Spanish writer and poet. She is the author of the books R.I.P. (Rest in Plastic)(2019); En la Ceniza Blanca de las Encías (2017), American Poems (2015) and the bilingual chapbook El Diente del Lobo/The Wolf’s Tooth (2014). She has published poems and short stories in multiple journals in the United States, Spain, and Latin America; her work has been included in several anthologies, and has been partially translated into English and Greek. Palomeque also collaborates with the Spanish media where she reports on U.S. social issues. You can follow her on twitter: @Zahr_Bloom.
Mercedes Roffé is one of the most renowned contemporary Argentine poets. Widely published in the Spanish-speaking world, her books were published in translation in Italy, France, Romania, England, Canada, Brazil, and the U.S. . She is the editorial director of Ediciones Pen Press, a press dedicated to the publication of contemporary poetry from around the world (www.edicionespenpress.com). Among other distinctions, Roffé has been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim (2001) and the Civitella Ranieri (2012) fellowships.