Catching up here on the blog always feels possible at first thought, but by the time I sit down to begin a post, I realize I have something else to do and the blog goes wanting. I do lament it. Blogging has often been a pleasure and served as a respite for me, but perhaps my new daily and nightly rhythms--and
Apple TV, which allows me to stream
YouTube music videos and
Netflix films from our TV--have so disrupted my previous mindset that it has just become more or too difficult to do. We will see.
Until that moment comes, here are a few photos from recent events. The first two are of the panel discussion, at
Poets House, for the
Hilda Hilst book launch, and by
Reggie H. (Thank you!) It was a fun panel, the book is now out and looks delectable, and Hilst now resides, at least in the form of one book,
The Obscene Madame D (with more to come), in a superb English collaborative translation by
Nathanaël and
Rachel Gontijo Araújo, a first.
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| Me; poet and critic Nathanäel and A Bolha Editora publisher and poet Rachel Gontijo Araújo, who collaborated the translation; Princeton professor Bruno Carvalho; and Stephen Motika, poet and publisher of Nightboat Books |
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| Me, Nathanäel, Rachel Gontijo Araújo, reading, and Bruno Carvalho |
On Tuesday I attended my first MFA Program reading at
Rutgers-Newark, and the featured readers were two of today's most acclaimed younger writers, poet
Eduardo C. Corral, who was selected by
Carl Phillips to receive this year's
Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize for his collection
Slow Lightning, becoming the first Latino poet to be so honored, and fiction writer
Justin Torres, whose stories have been blowing up
The New Yorker, and whose first novel,
We the Animals, has summoned the highest praise for all quarters. Both read as if they had been doing so, with panache, all their lives. My colleague, the acclaimed poet, nonfiction writer and anthologist
Rigoberto González, introduced both writers and moderated a lively Q& A session full of undergraduate and graduate writing students. Both had a good store of
bon mots to share, and it was an honor to meet both of them in person.
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| Eduardo C. Corral, Justin Torres, Rigoberto González |
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| Justin Torres |
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| Eduardo C. Corral |
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