Cuando nada en la tierra quede
“Cuando nada en la tierra quede”
The Diva Ends/The Diva’s Ends
(In English)
November 5, 2009, 1-3 pm
St. Mary’s Multipurpose Room
Professor Licia Fiol-Matta,
Associate Professor
Department of Latin American & Puerto Rican Studies
Lehman College, The City University of New York
Licia Fiol-Matta is Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican
Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. She is the author
of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral
(University of Minnesota Press, 2002), and of scholarly articles on gender,
race, and sexuality. Her current research focuses on pop music and media;
her second book, forthcoming from Duke University Press, is tentatively
entitled The Politics of Voice: Gender and Music Culture in Puerto Rico.
She is a member of the Editorial Collective of Social Text and co-editor of
the series New Directions in Latino American Cultures and New Concepts in
Latino American Cultures at Palgrave/Macmillan.
Whose National Anthem?
“Whose National Anthem? Clotilde Arias translation of Star Spangled Banner” by Marvette Pérez
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Location: 2120 Francis Scott Key
Poetas mexicanos en la ciudad
Young Mexican Poets
HERNÁN BRAVO VARELA & ALEJANDRO TARRAB
In Spanish
Thursday October 22, from 1:00 to 2:30pm
Multipurpose Room, St Mary’s Hall, University of Maryland, College Park
What it means to be a poet in Latin America? What it means to be a poet living in the most crowded city in the world? Award winning Mexican young poets Hernán Bravo and Alejandro Tarrab will address these and other questions regarding the art of poetry from their own experience and will read in Spanish some of their breathtaking works.