天美影视

Published April 20, 2015

The University of 天美影视 at Monroe鈥檚 English program will host a bilingual poetry reading featuring the Ecuadorian poet Santiago Vizcaino and his translator Alexis Levitin at 7 p.m., on Wednesday, April 22, in Hemphill Hall, Room 134.

The reading is free and open to the public.

Vizcaino is the author of 鈥淒estruction in the Afternoon,鈥� which won the Premio Proyectos Literarios Nacionales of the Ecuadoran Ministry of Culture award in 2008. The book of poetry was also published bilingually this year by Lavender Ink/Dialogos Books in New Orleans.

His critical study of the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik titled 鈥淪peaking Silence,鈥� won second prize in the Ministry of Culture鈥檚 essay competition. His first book of short stories, 鈥淭o Kill Mother鈥� was published in Buenos Aires in 2012.

Levitin鈥檚 translations have appeared in well over 200 magazines. His 35 books include Clarice Lispector鈥檚 鈥淪oulstorm,鈥� and Eugenio de Andrade鈥檚 鈥淔orbidden Words,鈥� both from New Directions.

For more information contact Jack Heflin at heflin@ulm.edu or at 318-342-1521.