World Literature Today to Co-host Online “RESISTIR Latin America” Poetry Event

World Literature Today to Co-host Online “RESISTIR Latin America” Poetry Event News and Events [email protected] Mon, 10/30/2023 - 15:47 On Saturday, November 18 at 10am cst, the “RESISTIR Groupe” of Latin American PEN Centers, World Literature Today, and Latin American Literature Today will co-host an event, free and open to the public, showcasing thirty poets affiliated with eighteen Latin American PEN Centers from throughout the hemisphere. All are invited to attend by registering for the Zoom webinar at the following link. The event is being organized, in a spirit of peace, by the Franco-Ecuadorian writer, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter Rocío Durán-Barba and will feature bilingual readings of poems from her two landmark anthologies, Resistir, antología de poesía latinoamericana 2020 and Resistir 2022–2023, 150 escritores más. Participating PEN Centers include Argentina, Bolivia, Chiapas, Chile, Colombia, Cuban Writers in Exile, Ecuador, Guadalajara, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Quechua, San Miguel de Allende, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Durán-Barba contributed the “300 Latin American Poets of Resistance: Two Anthologies, One Unique Work” essay to WLT’s “Future of the Book” issue (May 2023), which also included poems by Missael Duarte Somoza (Nicaragua), Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez (Cuba), Lydia Corcione Crescini (Colombia), and Samuel Gonzalez-Seijas (Venezuela), translated by WLT editor... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2023-10-30 20:47:30 UTC ]
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