Poetry: Neruda, Ferrer Lerín, + Panero

Come to Alley Cat Books in the Mission District to hear the poetry and prose of three great writers of the Spanish speaking world:
Pablo Neruda, Francisco Ferrer Lerín and Leopoldo María Panero.
Their work of the Chileno and the two Spaniards will be read by their translators: William O’Daly and Arturo Mantecón.
Music will be provided by Arturo Balderrama.
Q & A to follow
Limited open mic

WILLIAM O’DALY is a poet, translator, fiction writer, and editor. His translations include eight books of the poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda — Still Another Day, The Separate Rose, Winter Garden, The Sea and the Bells, The Yellow Heart, The Book of Questions, The Hands of Day, and World’s End — all published with Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon will publish his translation of Crepusculario (1923), Neruda’s first book of poems, in late 2017. A chapbook of poems, The Whale in the Web, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and Folded Word Press released The Road to Isla Negra (poems) in June 2015. Folded Word will publish two more books— Water Ways (a collaboration with JS Graustein) and Yarrow and Smoke — in 2017. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. With co-author Han-ping Chin, O’Daly recently completed a historical novel, This Earthly Life, an excerpt from which was awarded as a Finalist in Narrative’s 2009 Fall Story Contest. He has received national and regional honors for literary editing and instructional design. To learn more, please visit him at: www.williamodaly.com.

ARTURO MANTECÓN is a poet and translator born in Laredo, Texas and raised in Detroit, Michigan. His poetry has appeared in La Ventana Abierta, Poetry Now and various anthologies. Recently published books of his translations include Chance Encounters and Waking Dreams (collected work of the great Spanish writer, Francisco Ferrer Lerín) and The Sick Rose (the posthumous poems of Leopoldo María Panero, the mad, genius of Spanish letters). A collection of his short stories, Memories, Cuentos Verídicos, y Otras Outright Lies, was published by En Casa in 2014.