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¡Poesía está en la calle!
Resistencia Bookstore
casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St.
Austin, Texas
(512) 416-8885
revolu@swbell.net
Jun 28th, 2011 @ 5:47 pm
Internationally acclaimed Latino Poets Naomi Ayala and Benjamin Alire Sáenz Read From Their Poetry Collection
please support the Resistencia Booktable at this CantoMundo Event!
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Free. Open to the public.
Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Arts Center
600 River Street Austin, TX 78701
Award-winning poets Naomi Ayala and Benjamin Alire Sáenz will read from their acclaimed poetry collections at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Arts Center at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, 2011. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow.
This free event is hosted by CantoMundo, a national poetry workshop dedicated to supporting and developing Latina/o poetics. CantoMundo provides a space where Latina/o poets can nurture and enhance their poetics; lecture and learn about aspects of Latina/o poetics currently not being discussed by the mainstream publishers and critics; and network with peer poets to enrich and further disseminate Latina/o poetry. The Center for Mexican American Studies of the College of Liberal Arts of the University of Texas at Austin is the primary sponsor of CantoMundo. www.cantomundo.org
Biographies
Naomi Ayala is the author of two books of poetry, Wild Animals on the Moonand This Side of Early. Her third book of poems, Calling Home: Praise Songs and Incantations is forthcoming from Bilingual Review Press. Her translation of Argentinean poet Luis Alberto Ambroggio’s most recent book of poetry, The Wind’s Archeology/La arqueología del viento, was published by Vaso Roto Ediciones in Mexico in 2011. Naomi lives in Washington, DC and teaches at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD and the Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at UMASS-Boston. She is a member of the Board of Directors of DC Advocates for the Arts. Distinguishing herself as a poet who writes in both Spanish and English, Naomi’s most recent work in Spanish appears in Al pie de la Casa Blanca: Poetas hispanos de Washington, DC (North American Academy of the Spanish Language, 2010). Her most recent work in English is included in The Poet’s Cookbook: Recipes from Germany and Poems by 33 American Poets with German Translations.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s first collection of poetry, Calendar of Dust (1992), won the American Book Award. His first novel for young adults, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood (2004) was an ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second novel for teens, He Forgot to Say Goodbye (2010) won the Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award and the Southwest Books Award. Saenz is the author of a collection of short stories, Flowers for the Broken (1992), the novel Carry Me Like Water (1995), several children’s books and six collections of poetry. Saenz has received the Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship and the Lannan Poetry Fellowship.
