Sarah Riggs, Omar Berrada, Roger Makepeace

A Reading and Slide show of World Poetry & Photography @
The French Broad Institute
(of Time & the River)

Sunday, December 12th, 2010 4pm

Sarah Riggs is a poet, translator, and visual artist. She is the author of Waterwork and Chain of Miniscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling. 60 Textos is her latest publication in the USA. She has also published a book of essays, Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O’Hara . About Waterwork, Ann Lauterbach said: “In five stunning sequences, Sarah Riggs has created a poetics of elastic migrations that imagines the world as clusters, skeins, and motions whose innate peril is miraculously saved in the act of naming…”

Writer and translator Omar Berrada was born in Casablanca and lives in Paris. Between 2004 and 2007, he was a producer for French national radio, hosting the shows La nuit la poésie and Lumières d’août. He curated the Tangier International Book Fair in 2008 and, until recently, curated talks and conferences at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He is part of the French-American poetry collective, Double Change. Recent publications include a co-translation of Stanley Cavell’s Senses of Walden (with Bernard Rival, Théâtre Typographique, 2008), and a contribution to the collective volume Lettres à un jeune marocain.

Roger Makepeace is a world-traveling photographer based in Big Pine, near Marshall, NC. He will be sharing photos from his travels in Peru, including Machu Pichu, Arequipa, the Cloud Forests and Jungles. Roger Makepeace is pictured on the accompanying flyer with the Llareta which are massive alpine cushion plants living among rock outcrops. On his work: “You may find my photographs are unique, surreal, layered with detail and often not what they seem… in the spirit of Llareta.”