Posts tagged "Mónica de la Torre"

38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading

[ Sunday, January 1, 2012; 3:00 pm; ] There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better [...]

Reading for The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Writing

[ Wednesday, February 17, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Join us as we celebrate this landmark volume of Cuban poetry edited by Mark Weiss, The Whole Island (University of California Press, 2009). It makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets over the past 60 years. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the [...]