Poetry Reading in English & Spanish on Thurs., April 13 @ 7:30 pm, Pegasus Books

The BCC English Department and Modern Languages Department invite you to an evening of poetry reading in English and Spanish:

Date:  Thursday, April 13, 2017

Time: 7:30 pm

Where: Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 94704

Event page: https://goo.gl/WtHDTz

The event features two touring Argentine poets, Luisa Futoransky and Claudia Schvartz. Also appearing are Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amara, with two noted translators, Willis Barnstone and Dan Bellm.

Readings will be made by:

Ana Luísa Amaral was born in Lisbon, and lives in the north of Portugal. Professor at the University of Porto, she holds a Ph.D. on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and has academic publications in the areas of English and American Poetry, Comparative Poetics and Feminist Studies. She is a senior researcher and codirector of the Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa. Several plays were staged around her work, such as O olhar diagonal das coisas, A história da Aranha  Leopoldina, Próspero Morreu, or Como Tu.

Claudia Schvartz was born in Buenos Aires. She is a poet, translator, publisher, editor of collections of poetry and literary magazines, journalist and actress. Schvartz has also written several books of poetry, theatrical monologues, which she herself starred in, and several unpublished pieces of intense lyricism. She published La vida misma (1992), Ávido don (1999) and in the same year, her translation of the elegies and sonnets of Louise Labbé. In 2011 she published Eólicas and in 2015 El papel y su futuro. She is the chief editor of Editorial Leviatán in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dan Bellm is a writer, editor, and translator living in Berkeley, California. He has published Deep Well (2017), Twilight (2016), Practice (2008), Buried Treasure (1999), among others. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, and poetry residencies at Yaddo and Dorset Colony House.