Conversation & Reading

Many Poems: New Poetics of South America in Translation

Thu, Feb 27, 2025

6:00 PM–8:00 PM

Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration Required.

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Bringing together poets and translators of poets from South America, this event will consist of readings followed by a conversation around emerging poets from the region, and their work in translation, with an emphasis on small-press ecosystems, both in South America and the U.S. Join poets and translators Alexis Almeida (translator of Roberta Iannamico), Judah Rubin (translator of Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod), Eliana Hernandez-Pachón (poet; author of The Brush, Archipelago 2024), Natasha Tiniacos (poet, author of Against the Regime of the Fluent, Señal UDP 2024) for evening of readings and conversation, moderated by Coco Fitterman and Mónica de la Torre.

Free and open to all. The event will include books by the participants and a display of small press books and publications of South American poetry in translation.