Thursday, September 5, 2013

LETRAS LATINAS PRESENTS: 2013/2014



Around this time last year I said “Letras Latinas Presents” isn’t so much a “season” as a multi-faceted manifestation of solid partnerships. This year is no exception. Some highlights? I’ll mention four. For the first time, we are presenting a lecture: “Latino Poetry: Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition” by Rigoberto González, in collaboration with the Library of Congress. With the Poetry Society of America, we are presenting the “grand finale” (we kicked off in 2011 at Harvard) of “Latino/a Poetry Now” at Notre Dame with Blas Falconer, Raina J. León, Maria Melendez, and John Murillo. We are featuring in Chicago the winner and judge of the inaugural Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, Dan Vera and Orlando Ricardo Menes, respectively, hosted by the Poetry Foundation. And (drum roll) we inaugurate our next multi-year initiative: “PINTURA : PALABRA"—within the context of the Latino Art Now! conference in Washington, D.C. with a special session titled “Ekphrasis: theory, then practice in poems inspired by Latino art” featuring Tino Villanueva and Eduardo C. Corral, in tandem with the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art.” And much more… Without further delay:

 “LETRAS LATINAS PRESENTS”
—2013/2014—

September 24, 2013
El Paso, TX

Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize

present

Laurie Ann Guerrero
Dan Vera

@
7:00 PM
UTEP Library
Blumberg Auditorium
University of Texas at El Paso

co-sponsored with
The Department of Creative Writing Program, UTEP

***
October 2, 2012
South Bend, IN

Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture

presents

Orlando Ricardo Menes
Lauro Vazquez
Lynda Letona

in tandem with the exhibit
“The African Presence in Mexico”
& Hispanic Heritage Month

@
7:00 PM
Notre Dame Center for Art and Culture
1045 W. Washington Street

co-sponsored with
Crossroads Gallery of Contemporary Art
Notre Dame Creative Writing Program
Notre Dame Community Relations

***

October 24, 2013
Chicago, IL

The Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry Off the Shelf”

presents

Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize

Orlando Ricardo Menes (judge)
Dan Vera (winner)

@
7:00 PM
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street

co-sponsored  with
Red Hen Press, the Guild Complex, the Ragdale Foundation

***
October 30, 2013
South Bend, IN

The Poetry Society of America/Letras Latinas

presents

“Latino/a Poetry Now”
(“the grand finale”)

Raina J. León
Blas Falconer
Maria Melendez
John Murillo

@
7:30 PM
Ecks Center Auditorium
University of Notre Dame

co-sponsored with
Institute for Scholarship and the Liberal Arts
The Institute for Latino Studies
The Graduate School
The Helen Kellog Institute for International Studies
The José E. Fernández Hispanic Studies Caribbean Initiative
The Creative Writing Program
The English Department
Africana Studies
Multicultural Student Programs and Services

***

November 6, 2013
South Bend, IN

reading from FETISH
winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize

Orlando Ricardo Menes
@
7:30 PM
Hammes Bookstore
University of Notre Dame

co-sponsored with
Creative Writing Program, ND

***

November 8, 2013
Washington, D.C.

“Latino Art Now!”

presents

“Ekphrasis: theory, then practice
in poems inspired by Latino art”*

Tino Villanueva
Eduardo C. Corral
@
4:30 PM
Patrons Lounge
National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, D.C.

co-sponsored with
the Smithsonian Institution and its Smithsonian Latino Center,
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
and the Inter-University Program
for Latino Research (IUPLR), headquartered at UIC.

***

December 5, 2013
Chicago, IL

The Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry Off the Shelf”

presents

Eduardo C. Corral
Carmen Giménez Smith
Sheryl Luna
Deborah Parédez

@
7:00 PM
The Poetry Foundation
 61 West Superior Street

co-sponsored with
CantoMundo, the Guild Complex

 ***
January 13, 2014
Palm Beach, FL

“Sons of the Caribbean:
Two American Writers”

Richard Blanco
Fred Arroyo
@
6:00 pm
Dixon Auditorium
Dixon Education Building
Society of the Four Arts

co-sponsored with Society of the Four Arts

***
February 12, 2014
South Bend, IN

Ernest Sandeen Prize reading

Manuel Paul Lopez

@
7:30 PM
Hammes Bookstore
University of Notre Dame

***
February 14, 2014
Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress presents

“PINTURA : PALABRA
poetry inspired by art”

a colloquium

Brenda Cárdenas
Valerie Martínez

@
2:00 PM
Room LJ-119 
Jefferson Building
Library of Congress

co-sponsored by Hispanic Division (LOC),
the Poetry and Literature Center (LOC)
Center for the Book (LOC)

***

February 16, 2014
Washington, D.C.

“Sunday Kind of Love”

presents

“PINTURA : PALABRA
a project in ekphrasis”

a post-workshop reading

Elizabeth Acevedo
Carlos Parada Ayala
Carmen Calatayud
Brenda Cárdenas
John Chávez
Carmen Gimenez Smith
Valerie Martínez
Samuel Miranda
Juan J. Morales
Yvette Neisser Moreno
Emma Trelles
Dan Vera

@
5:00 PM
Busboys and Poets
14th and V NW

Co-sponsored with
Busboys and Poets
Split This Rock
Cultural DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum

 ***
March 27-30, 2014
Washington, D.C.

“Split This Rock Poetry Festival:
poems of provocation and witness”

Sheila Black
Franny Choi
Eduardo C. Corral
Gayle Danley
Natalie Diaz
Joe Harjo
Yusef Komunyakaa
Maria Melendez
Dunya Mikhail
Shailja Patel
Wang Ping
Claudia Rankine
Tim Seible
Myra Sklarew
Danez Smith
Anne Waldman

co-sponsored with
Busboys and Poets, Letras Latinas and others

***
April 8, 2014
Pueblo, CO

The SoCo Reading Series

presents

Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize

featuring

Laurie Ann Guerrero
Dan Vera

@
7:00 PM
Library and Academic Resources Center (LARC)
University of Colorado, Pueblo

co-sponsored with
Diversity Resource Center
English and Foreign Languages Department

***

April 10, 2014
Washington, D.C.


“Latino Poetry:
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition”


Rigoberto González

@
6:30 PM
Montpelier Room
Madison Building, 6th Floor
Library of Congress


co-sponsored with Hispanic Division (LOC),
the Poetry and Literature Center (LOC)
Center for the Book (LOC)

***

April 14, 2014
South Bend, IN

Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

presents

Francisco X. Alarcón (judge)
Laurie Ann Guerrero (winner)
@
7:30 PM
210-214 McKenna Hall
University of Notre Dame

co-sponsored with
the Institute for Latino Studies
Department of Romance Languages

***

April 20, 2014
Washington, D.C.

“Sunday Kind of Love”

presents

Pablo Miguel Martínez
Elizabeth Acevedo
@
5: 00 PM
Busboys & Poets
14th and V  NW

co-sponsored with
Split This Rock, Busboys and Poets

***

June 10, 2014
New York, NY

Word for Word

Barbara Brinson Curiel
Carmen Calatayud
David Tomás Martínez
Pablo Miguel Martínez
@
7: 00 PM
Bryant Park
New York City

***

“Letras Latinas Presents”
is an initiative of Letras Latinas—
the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies
at the University of Notre Dame
*
Letras Latinas programming is made possible,
in part, thanks to the generosity of individual donors
and the Weissberg Foundation

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