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Isla No Isla
November 9, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:
ISLA NO ISLA
A Sunday Reading with:
Uráyoan Noel (Puerto Rico), Omar Pérez (Cuba), Edwin Torres (New York City)
BIOS:
Urayoán Noel teaches at NYU and is the author, most recently, ofEnUncIAdOr (Editora Educación Emergente, 2014) and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam(University of Iowa Press, 2014). A former CantoMundo and Ford Foundation fellow, he has two books forthcoming: Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona Press) and a bilingual edition of the poetry of Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman Books). He lives in the Bronx and is the poetry editor of NACLA Report on the Americas.
Omar Pérez has consistently translated from the English, Italian, French and Dutch languages. He has published, among others, a (Cuban) Spanish version of Shakespeare ́s As You Like It: Como les Guste; a translation of Dylan Thomas ́s Collected Poems; an anthology of XX Century Italian poetry (L ́Antimelancólico), a collection of Anglophone African poetry (Mágicos Intervalos) as well as (Lo que es) an anthology of Dutch verse. Numerous translations of poems, short stories and novels from the above mentioned languages, have been publishedin Cuba and abroad.
Omar Pérez has collaborated in the theatre, both as an actor and musician. He has thus participated in festivals such as Villa e Castelle, Regione Marche, Italy, 1996, or Bienal de Danza del Caribe, Havana, 2008 and 2010.
He has interacted with several actors, musicians and dancers in plays, performances, happenings in Cuba and Europe.
As a poet, Pérez has participated in festivals such as Poetry International, Rotterdam, 2002, and Festival de Poesía de Medellín, in 2006.
Edwin Torres is the author of many poetry collections, including most recently “Ameriscopia” (University of Arizona Press). He’s the founder of The Noricua Movement and has been a leaky fixture in the New York City poetry community for over two decades. Eleni Sikelianos writes, “Edwin Torres shatters the definition of Latino into a million little pieces.” He has an ebook forthcoming in 2015 from (Tuiteratura Ediciones, Spain) entitled “ePOWM!”
FREE!!!
Starts at 4:00PM