Poetry Performance Translation Now!

WHY: As executive orders declare English the national language, as immigrants are criminalized and scapegoated, as language programs at UIC and nationally are threatened, we celebrate multilingualism, translation, and linguistic experimentation as VITAL and NECESSARY. Please join us for readings, translations, experimental translations, and performances that cross languages in provocative and exciting ways.

WHO:

Steven Alvarez is a poet and scholar.  Alvarez’s books include  Manhatitlán, McTlán, Tonalmatl and The Codex Mojaodicus. His monographs include Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies. He writes about transnational food ways and #tacoliteracy.

Julie Carr is a poet, editor, scholar and translator. Carr’s books include Underscore, 100 Notes on Violence, Real Life: An Installation, Someone Shot My Book. She is the co-translator with Jennifer Pap of Excess-The Factory and The Book of Skies by Leslie Kaplan.

Gillian Conoley is a poet, editor and translator. Conoley’s books include Notes from the Passenger, and A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems. She is the translator of three books by Henri Michaux.

Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is an essayist, editor, and translator. She is the author of Don’t Come Back, Drown/Sever/Sing; editor of The Great American Essay, translator and editor of 100 Refutations.

Urayoán Noel is a poet, translator, perfomer, and scholar from Puerto Rico. Noel’s poetry collections include Transversal and Buzzing Hemispher/Rumor Hemisférico. Translations include books by Pablo de Rokha, Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Wingston González.