S284. Beyond Neruda: Latin American Women Poets Burn Down the House
Saturday, April 2, 2016
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Participants
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and a translator specializing in Uruguayan poetry. Her translations include The Invisible Bridge / El puente invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia. She is the Zona Gale Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Forrest Gander is a writer and translator with degrees in geology and English literature. Recent books include the novel The Trace, and poems: Eiko & Koma; Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino, and Core Samples from the World, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist.
Yvette Siegert is a poet and translator. She has edited for the New Yorker, Drunken Boat, and the United Nations, and her translations have received support from the PEN American Center, the Academy of American Poets, NYSCA, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jen Hofer is an LA-based poet, translator, interpreter, bookmaker, and cofounder of Antena, dedicated to language justice and literary activism. She has published nine books in translation, three books of poetry, and many DIY books.