Posts tagged "Edwin Torres"
Spring Benefit – Epic Now: Poetry for Epic Times
[ Friday, May 10, 2013; 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm. Saturday, May 11, 2013; 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm. ] We’re living in a time of legends, and what better way to examine our modern-day sagas than through The Poetry Project’s Spring Benefit – Epic Now: Epic Poetry for Epic Times. On Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, 2013 The Poetry Project invites poets and performers to present their own translations and/or re-interpretations of [...]
Emerge-Surface-Be: 2013 Fellowship Program for Emerging Poets
Application Deadline – February 18, 2013
Program Overview:
Emerge – Surface – Be is a natural extension of The Poetry Project’s program offerings. It formalizes the distinct yet unspoken pedagogical aspect of The Poetry Project’s programs while providing a unique opportunity to support, develop and present emerging NYC-based poets of promise. Three emerging poets will be selected by and paired [...]
2013 Fellowship Program for Emerging Poets: Emerge-Surface-Be
Emerge-Surface-Be: 2013 Fellowship Program for Emerging Poets
Application Available – January 15, 2013
Application Deadline – February 18, 2013
Program Overview:
Emerge – Surface – Be is a natural extension of The Poetry Project’s program offerings. It formalizes the distinct yet unspoken pedagogical aspect of The Poetry Project’s programs while providing a unique opportunity to support, develop and present emerging NYC-based poets [...]
Rimbaud’s Illuminations
[ Wednesday, April 27, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
At last! John Ashbery’s translation of French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s final masterpiece before abandoning poetry at the age of 21, Illuminations (Norton, 2011) has been published. Ashbery’s rendering of all forty-four poems powerfully evokes the kaleidoscopic beauty of the original and creates “a vision of postdiluvian freshness” out of “the chaos of ice floes and [...]
Edwin Torres reads “Me No Habla Spic” & “No Lie _ H onest” – 11/4/09
“Me No Habla Spic”
Edwin Torres Me No Habla Spic
“No Lie _ H onest”
Edwin Torres no lie
Edwin Torres on his Project reading
Read Edwin’s Buffer Zone Galactica on the blog “harriet.”
Edwin Torres & Will Alexander
[This event took place Wednesday, November 3, 2009]
Report by Nada Gordon
Edwin Torres was stylin’ in his official MTA pop lettrist NY School subway socks and fine loud maybe zinnia print shirt in shades of burgundy, pumpkin, scarlet, neon cantaloupe, and 50s aqua on a warm cream background. I watched him psych up gathering energy to be, as [...]
Introductions for Will Alexander & Edwin Torres – 11/4/09
Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist who lives in Los Angeles, the city where he was born in 1948. He was the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry in 2001 and a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002. Over the years he has worked several jobs (including the LA [...]
