Hybrid | Tuesday | November 19 | 7-9pm
Celebrate the art of translation with a reading of the poem “FOG / NIEBLA” by the Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa, author of The Book of Eve (Deep Vellum, 2023). Boullosa is joined by her translator, Samantha Schnee, for a conversation about the poem and the translation process. Art pieces by Jicky Schnee will be screened alongside the reading. Admission Free with RSVP.
Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow in the Viscusi Reading Room.
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About the participants:
Carmen Boullosa is the author of a dozen volumes of poetry, has published nineteen novels, as well as four books of essays and ten plays (seven staged). She is a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a Cullman Center Fellow.
Samantha Schnee is the founding editor of Words Without Borders. She is the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship to translate Boullosa’s novel El complot de los románticos and a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.
Jicky Schnee is an artist, actor and writer. She received her B.A. in Fine Art and Art History from Rice University and went on to appear as a principal in films alongside Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Rip Torn and F. Murray Abraham. She has shown at Bibro NYC, The Sewall Gallery in Houston, AMP in Provincetown, Mc Daris Hudson, NY and Collective, Woodstock where she is both founder and curator.