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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon w/ Donald Nicholson-Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join us at a special Two Voices Salon to celebrate the release of prize-winning Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi’s latest book\, In Praise of Defeat\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. \nDonald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and editor focused on psychology and social criticism\, more recently moving to fiction–especially noir fiction–and poetry. He has received numerous awards and was short-listed for the French-American Prize for his translation of Apollinaire’s Letters to Madeleine; and has also been named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres for services to French literature in translation. \nAbdellatif Laabi is a novelist\, poet and playwright\, and the French translator of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish\, the Moroccan poet Abdallah Zrika\, the Iraqi poet Abdelawahab Al Bayati and the Syrian novelist Hanna Minna. He has edited numerous anthologies\, most notably one of twentieth-century Moroccan poetry. He received the Prix Goncourt de la Poésie in 2009 and the Académie française’s Grand prix de la Francophonie in 2011. \nSnacks and beverages provided\, please come join the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-w-donald-nicholson-smith/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:José Kozer
DESCRIPTION:José Kozer is recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as the foremost Cuban poet of his generation and an inheritor of the neo-baroque tradition after José Lezama Lima. Kozer is author of 52 books of poetry and prose\, and has lived in the U.S. since the 1960s. \nKozer’s poetry has been translated to English\, Portuguese\, German\, French\, Italian\, Hebrew and Greek\, has been widely anthologized and has appeared in numerous literary journals from all over the world\, and from publishers such as Gallimard (France) and Fischer Verlag (Germany)\, where only 15 poets of the Latin American 20th century appeared. A 1997 symposium on Kozer’s poetry\, held at University of California\, Irvine\, produced a full-length book\, La Voracidad Grafómana: José Kozer (UNAM University in Mexico City). \nBorn in Havana\, Cuba\, of Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland and Czechoslovakia\, Kozer left his native land in 1960 and lived in New York until 1997\, the year he retired from Queens College\, where he taught Spanish and Latin American literatures for 32 years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jose-kozer/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading by Maggie Nelson\, the author of nine books of poetry and prose\, including the nonfiction collections The Argonauts\, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller\, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, Bluets\, The Red Parts\, and Women\, the New York School\, and Other True Abstractions; and the poetry collections Something Bright\, Then Holes and Jane: A Murder\, finalist for the PEN/ Martha Albrand Art of the Memoir. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, an NEA in Poetry\, a Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital\, and an Arts Writers Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. She currently directs the MFA in Writing Program for the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles. \nThe MFA Reading Series presents free literary readings and discussions that are open to the public. The series is co-sponsored by USF’s English department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-nelson/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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