Thursday, January 04, 2007
SOMOS Winter Writers Series READING/WORKSHOP
Friday, January 19, 2007, 7:00 PM @ the Harwood Museum, 238 Ledoux St., Taos $7, $5 for SOMOS members - Breaking the Language Barriers. Join poets Valerie Martinez and Jesus J. Barquet for a journey across borders and cultures, into forbidden zones and the sacred, exploring what holds us together, what keeps us apart. This noche caliente of bilingual cross-fertilizations is sure to sizzle the mid-winter blues away.
Valerie Martinez’s first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry; Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance, and Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred. Martinez served as assistant editor of the anthology Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Writing by Native Women of North America. An essay about Joy Harjo (along with poems by Harjo and Martinez) will appear in the anthology Women, Sisters, and Saints: Women Poets and Their Mentors. She is currently Asst. Professor of English and Creative Writing and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Santa Fe.
Cuban poet, literary critic and translator Jesus J. Barquet will give a bilingual performance from his latest works on war and migration. Barquet’s books include, among others: Consecration of Havana, which won the Gold Letters prize, Poetic Scriptures of a Nation (Havana Lourdes Country Prize), Theater and Cuban Revolution: Subversion and Utopia, and Un no rompido sueño, winner of a Latin-Chicano Poetry Prize. His most recent poetry translation, “Jose Angel Valente: A Selection of His Poetry,” was published in Puerto del Sol. Barquet is Professor of Hispanic Literature at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. A rare treat will follow Barquet’s performance: On Saturday, January 20, he will conduct a S.O.M.O.S.-sponsored poetry workshop, “Navigating Your Book of Poems” $50 plus $8 for materials; @ the Taos Public Libaray 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM For information and sign-up, contact S.O.M.O.S. at (505) 758-0081 or email somos@laplaza.org
Valerie Martinez’s first book of poetry, Absence, Luminescent won the Larry Levis Prize and a Greenwall Grant from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry; Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance, and Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred. Martinez served as assistant editor of the anthology Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Writing by Native Women of North America. An essay about Joy Harjo (along with poems by Harjo and Martinez) will appear in the anthology Women, Sisters, and Saints: Women Poets and Their Mentors. She is currently Asst. Professor of English and Creative Writing and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Santa Fe.
Cuban poet, literary critic and translator Jesus J. Barquet will give a bilingual performance from his latest works on war and migration. Barquet’s books include, among others: Consecration of Havana, which won the Gold Letters prize, Poetic Scriptures of a Nation (Havana Lourdes Country Prize), Theater and Cuban Revolution: Subversion and Utopia, and Un no rompido sueño, winner of a Latin-Chicano Poetry Prize. His most recent poetry translation, “Jose Angel Valente: A Selection of His Poetry,” was published in Puerto del Sol. Barquet is Professor of Hispanic Literature at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. A rare treat will follow Barquet’s performance: On Saturday, January 20, he will conduct a S.O.M.O.S.-sponsored poetry workshop, “Navigating Your Book of Poems” $50 plus $8 for materials; @ the Taos Public Libaray 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM For information and sign-up, contact S.O.M.O.S. at (505) 758-0081 or email somos@laplaza.org
