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Palabra Pura – “Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets”
10/17/2012 @ 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
FreeThe Guild Literary Complex continues its seventh year of its Palabra Pura bilingual poetry series with “Migrating Words: Contratiempo Poets” on October 17, 2012. The event is curated by Dr. Jochy Herrera and features poets from contratiempo magazine. The event will include poetry in Spanish, English and a combination of both. Featured readers will include Jorge Montiel, Silvia Goldman, and Santiago Weksler.
ABOUT CONTRATIEMPO
As a result of the literary and cultural needs of Spanish speaking writers of Chicago, Contratiempo was born in 2003. Since its beginnings, Contratiempo sought to preserve, enrich, and promote Latin American art and thought in Spanish through the pages of a monthly print and online magazine that, in a few weeks, will celebrate it s 100th consecutive issue!
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Jochy Herrera has been a part of Contratiempo magazine since its beginnings, and has served on its board of directors and editorial board. He is a native of the Dominican Republic and author of two books: Extrasistoles and Seducir los sentidos.
ABOUT THE READERS
Jorge Montiel was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1986. He spent much of his life in Puebla, Mexico, where he attended the Palafoxian Seminary of Puebla. He arrived in Chicago in 2007 and currently studies philosophy and Spanish at Northeastern Illinois University. His poems have been published in the anthology En la 18 a la 1: Escritores
Santiago Weksler has not returned to Peru since he came to Chicago in 2001. He earns his living as a dog-walker. He is a photographer and a poet. He lives in Pilsen with his cat Danico and his friend Elena.de Contratiempo en Chicago (On 18th Street at 1 am: Contratiempo Writers in Chicago)
Silvia Goldman was born in Uruguay. She moved to the US eleven years ago and recently relocated to the Chicago area. She has published poems as well scholarly articles in literary journals and online anthologies such as Maldoror: Revista de la ciudad de Montevideo; Revista de escritura & poéticas 7de7; Small Stations: Anthology of Poets; Rilce: Revista de filología hispánica; Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica, and Rassegna Iberistica. In 2008 she published her first book of poetry entitled Cinco movimientos del llanto (Ediciones Hermes Criollo). In 2010 she received her PhD in Hispanic Studies from Brown University. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Romance Languages at Boston College and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at North Central College. Her research interests include Latin American poetry and poetics, testimonial literature and film, Performance Studies, Transatlantic Studies, and Memory Studies.