Events
The Creative Writing in Spanish Program hosts events open to the general public and some specially devised for MFA students. In the fall of 2007 our program cosponsored "The Geometry of Hope: A Celebration of Verbal and Visual Cultures in Latin America," a series of poetry readings open to the public organized by Lila Z emborain in conjunction with the Grey Art Gallery. Poets Cecilia Vicuña (Chile), Roberto Echavarren (Uruguay), Jussara Salazar (Brazil), Coral Bracho (Mexico), Edwin Torres (New York) and Yolanda Pantin (Venezuela) read poems addressing specific works displayed in the Latin American art exhibit from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros collection.
In conjunction with the King Juan Carlos I Center, the Program also sponsors a regular poetry series every spring and fall curated by Lila Zemborain. Recent guests include Patricia Guzmán (Venezuela), Arturo Carrera (Argentina), Odi Gonzáles (Peru), José Kozer (Cuba), Joan Navarro (Spain), Silvia Guerra (Uruguay), Rodrigo Toscano (Chicano/USA), Rosa Alcalá (USA) and Raúl Zurita (Chile).
The Program also organizes Teatro Vivo/Live Theater: A Festival, a theater festival consisting of five readings of plays in Spanish written by award-winning writers from Latin America and Spain.
In the spring of 2009 the Program organized the colloquium Translating Other/Translating Self. Forrest Gander, Mirta Rosenberg, Renato Rosaldo and Esther Allen, among other writers and translators, shared their work on approaches to translation.
For more information on this series go to www.nyu.edu/kjc
The Creative Writing in Spanish Program invites one or two Latin American, Spanish or Latino writers per semester to dialogue with students as part of an ongoing colloquium on writing. Recent invited writers have included Margo Glantz, Mercedes Roffé and Martín Kohan, among others. In the fall of 2009 Mario Bellatin will visit NYU as the Program's invited writer.
KJCC Poetry Series
Introduction by Cecilia Vicuña, and readings by the translators Charles Bernstein, Simon Pettet, Michelle Gil-Montero, Molly Weigel and Gary Racz.
Curated by Lila Zemborain. A reading celebrating the publication of The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (Oxford UP, 2009) edited by Cecilia Vicuña and Ernesto Livon-Grosman . Introduction by Cecilia Vicuña, and readings by the translators Charles Bernstein, Simon Pettet, Michelle Gil-Montero, Molly Weigel and Gary Racz. Presented in conjunction with Painted Ideas, an exhibition of the Visual Poetry in The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, September 15th-October 31, 2009 at Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, http://www.ceciliadetorres.com/.
Information: 212/998-3650; kjc.info@nyu.edu; www.nyu.edu/kjc.
Location:
53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan)
KJCC Poetry Series: Poetry reading by Ana Arzoumanian (Argentina) and Lorenzo García Vega (Cuba).
Ana Arzoumanian (Argentina) and Lorenzo García Vega (Cuba).
Curated by Lila Zemborain. Information: 212/998-3650; kjc.info@nyu.edu; www.nyu.edu/kjc.
Location:
53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan)
Julio Ortega and Rubí Carreño present “Diamela Eltit: redes locales, redes globales”
Julio Ortega and Rubí Carreño
Location:
King Juan Carlos Center
Book Presentation Sylvia Molloy will present Margo Glantz’s Complete Works, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica de México
Sylvia Molloy
Location:
King Juan Carlos Center
Autoficciones y escrituras del yo
Sergio Chejfec, Daniel Link, Lina Meruane and Vivi Tellas.
Sylvia Molloy will moderate the event.
Location:
King Juan Carlos Center
KJCC Poetry Series: Dialogues of Silence
Sabrina Latsman
Curated by Lila Zemborain. Dialogues of Silence, by Sabrina Latsman, is an interdisciplinary performance based on the poetry
and inner world perception of Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño. It consists of a solo vocal artist who translates the poetic atmosphere into a dance and sound experience. Co-sponsored by NYU's MFA Program in Creative Writing in Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Information: 212/998-3650; kjc.info@nyu.edu; www.nyu.edu/kjc.
Location:
53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan)
