LETRAS LATINAS PRESENTS: 2011/2012

“Letras Latinas Presents” is something of a misnomer. A more accurate term would be “Letras Latinas Co-Presents.’’ In the events listed below, Letras Latinas, in some, is the lead sponsor; in others, it's part of a team of equal co-sponsors; and in others, we've signed on as a secondary co-sponsor. “Letras Latinas Presents,” then, is an attempt to highlight---where literary programming is concerned---our aim to “actively seek collaboration with individuals and organizations in order to more effectively carry out its mission.” (mission statement  excerpt)

So, without further delay—and with tweaking and adding still to come—here is our upcoming season:

Letras Latinas Presents

—2011/2012—

October 4, 2011, 7 PM

“At Night We Walk In Circles”

Daniel Alarcón

University of Notre Dame

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

South Bend, IN

http://latinostudies.nd.edu/calendar/index.php?enum=1103

Co-sponsored with Worldview Initiative/Office of the President,

Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts,

Kellog Institute for International Studies,

the Graduate School, Romance Languages and Literature,

the Creative Writing Program

*

October 11, 2011, 4:30 PM

John Phillip Santos

University of Notre Dame

McKenna Hall

South Bend, IN

http://latinostudies.nd.edu/calendar/index.php?day=11&month=10&year=2011

Co-sponsored with the Graduate School

the Creative Writing Program

*

November 8, 2011, 6 PM

“Latino/a Poetry Now” (1)

Rosa Alcalá

Eduardo C. Corral

Aracelis Girmay

Harvard University

Thompson Room, Barker Center

Cambridge, MA

http://375.harvard.edu/campus-events#/?i=4

Co-sponsored with Poetry Society of America

the Woodberry Poetry Room

*

November 15, 2011, 4 PM

Oscar Casares

University of Notre Dame

McKenna Hall

South Bend, IN

Co-sponsored with the English Department

the Office of Undergraduate Studies

*

February 18, 2012, 11 AM

“Two American Poets”

Jim Tilley

Emma Trelles

Society of the Four Arts

The King Library

Palm Beach, FL

http://www.fourarts.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.one&content_id=1049&x=1289198

Co-sponsored with Society of the Four Arts

Red Hen Press

*

March 18, 2012, 5 PM

“Sunday Kind of Love”

Carmen Calatayud

Emma Trelles

Busboys and Poets

Washington, D.C.

Co-sponsored with Split This Rock Poetry Festival

Southwest Airlines

*

March 20, 2012, 8 PM

“Latino/a Poetry Now” (2)

William Archila

Ruth Irupé Sanabria

Georgetown University

Copley Formal Lounge

Washington, D.C.

http://lannan.georgetown.edu/2011/07/archila-and-sanabria/

Co-sponsored with Poetry Society of America

the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice

Southwest Airlines

*

April 16, 2012, 4:30 PM

“Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Reading”

featuring winner and judge

Silvia Curbelo

Emma Trelles

University of Notre Dame

McKenna Hall

South Bend, IN

Co-sponsors TBA

*

April 26, 2012, 7 PM

“Lit in Conversation”

Blas Falconer

Lorraine  M. López

Library of Congress

Madison Building, Sixth Floor

Washington, D.C.

Sponsored by the Library of Congress

in collaboration with Letras Latinas

and University of Arizona Press

*

June 26, 2012, 7 PM

Letras Latinas Reading

Aracelis Girmay

Urayoan Noel

Dan Vera

Word for Word Poetry Series

Bryant Park Reading Room

Bryant Park

New York, NY

Co-sponsored with the Bryant Park Corporation