Published April 20, 2015
The University of Louisiana at Monroe鈥檚 English program will host a bilingual poetry
reading featuring the Ecuadorian poet Santiago Vizcaino and his translator Alexis
Levitin at 7 p.m., on Wednesday, April 22, in Hemphill Hall, Room 134.
The reading is free and open to the public.
Vizcaino is the author of 鈥淒estruction in the Afternoon,鈥� which won the Premio Proyectos
Literarios Nacionales of the Ecuadoran Ministry of Culture award in 2008. The book
of poetry was also published bilingually this year by Lavender Ink/Dialogos Books
in New Orleans.
His critical study of the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik titled 鈥淪peaking Silence,鈥�
won second prize in the Ministry of Culture鈥檚 essay competition. His first book of
short stories, 鈥淭o Kill Mother鈥� was published in Buenos Aires in 2012.
Levitin鈥檚 translations have appeared in well over 200 magazines. His 35 books include
Clarice Lispector鈥檚 鈥淪oulstorm,鈥� and Eugenio de Andrade鈥檚 鈥淔orbidden Words,鈥� both
from New Directions.
For more information contact Jack Heflin at heflin@ulm.edu or at 318-342-1521.
