Thursday, April 11^th from 2:15 pm – 4:50 pm

UIC, University Hall 1501, 601 S. Morgan St.

An Afternoon of Conversation with Poets

The Latinx Literature Now event kicks off with a reading and conversation from our invited speakers, Cecilia Vicuña, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Susan Briante, Farid Matuk, Aurelio Lima Dávila, and Giancarlo Huapaya. During this conversation, our poets and artists will explore the themes of documentary, performance, and translation present in their work and how they see their work in relation to the Americas.

Friday, April 12^th from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

UIC, Institute for the Humanities, 1007 W. Harrison St., Suite 153

Translation, Performance, and Documentary

11:15 am – 12:30 pm

Panel 1: This panel features Farid Matuk, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, and Aurelio Lima Dávila. During this panel, poets and artists will present a creative piece of work that embodies the themes of translation, performance, and documentary. The performances will be followed by a Q&A.

12:30pm –1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Panel 2: This panel features Susan Briante, Giancarlo Huapaya, and Cecilia Vicuña. During this panel, poets and artists will present a creative piece of work that embodies the themes of translation, performance, and documentary. The performances will be followed by a Q&A.

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Cecilia Vicuña is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Instan (2002), Cloud-Net (1999), Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water (1992, translated by Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine), Precario/Precarious (1983), and SABORAMI (1973, reissued with an afterword by the author in 2011).

Giancarlo Huapaya is author of the books Estado y Contemplación/ Canción de Canción se Gana, Polisexual and Taller Sub Verso, and the editor of the anthology Pulenta Pool: Peruvian Poets in the United States (Hostos Review, 2017).

Susan Briante is the author most recently of Defacing the Monument, a series of essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state. Briante is also the author of three books of poetry: Pioneers in the Study of Motion, Utopia Minus (an Academy of American Poets Notable Book of 2011) and The Market Wonders.

Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood and The Real Horse, and of several chapbooks including My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta).

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s honors include being named Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the Premio Nuevas Voces, and the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. He is author of lo terciario/ the tertiary (Noemi Press, 2019), while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds LLC, 2019), and antes que isla es volcán/ before island is volcano (Beacon Press, 2022). Rivera will be joined by actor Aurelio Lima Davila.