[Milwaukee, WI]

Virtual reading with Mónica de la Torre and José Felipe Alvergue
April 4, 2020, 7:00 pm
at Woodland Pattern

UDP author, translator, and editor Mónica de la Torre will read with José Felipe Alvergue. 

7PM Central Time! 

Please join us for our first-ever reading on Zoom! To attend, visit https://bit.ly/mdltjfa and you’ll be admitted to a waiting room and then invited in for the event. During the reading, you’ll hear only from the poets and our Programming Director Mike Wendt. Your audio and video will be on mute, but following the performance we’re hoping to open things up for audience participation and discussion. (If you wish to remain unseen and unheard simply keep your audio and video off.) And do please bear with us, since we’re new to this, too!

This reading is part of our series Unwriting Borders: Latinx Poets in the US, curated by Roberto Harrison and made possible with support from the Milwaukee Arts Board and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

 

Reader bios:

Mónica de la Torre works with and between languages. Her latest book, The Happy End/All Welcome, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse, which also put out her translation of Defense of the Idol by Chilean modernist Omar Cáceres in 2018. Recent writing appears in Artforum, A Public Space, The Literary Review, and Folder. She teaches poetry at Brooklyn College. Repetition Nineteen, a new book of poems, is forthcoming from Nightboat in 2020.

José Felipe Alvergue is the author of gist : rift : drift : bloom (2015) and precis (2017). His third book, scenery, was selected for the Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize and is forthcoming with Fordham University Press. A graduate of the Cal Arts Writing and Buffalo Poetics Programs, José lives and teaches in Wisconsin.

Event admission is donate what you can.

More event info here.