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February 16th | Doors at 5:00pm | Free | At Vox
Poetry Reading by Mónica de la Torre

Poetry Reading by Mónica de la Torre

Temple University Creative Writing Program presents Mónica de la Torre as part of their Poets & Writers series

February 16th | Doors at 5:00pm | Free | At Vox

Mónica de la Torre’s most recent book of poems and experimental translations is Repetition Nineteen. Other collections include The Happy End/All Welcome—a riff on a riff on Kafka’s Amerika—and Public Domain. She has published several books in Spanish, including Taller de Taquimecanografía, written jointly with the eponymous women artists’ collective she co-founded. With Alex Balgiu, she co-edited the anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79. She has translated numerous works from the Spanish, most recently Omar Cáceres’s Defense of the Idol, and is co-editor of the volume Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. A recipient of a 2022 Creative Capital grant and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C. D. Wright Award for Poetry, she teaches poetry at Brooklyn College.

Event:
Poetry Reading by Mónica de la Torre
Start:
February 16, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
End:
February 16, 2023 @ 6:30 pm
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