Bilingual poetry reading of "Sonata Mulettica" w/Dr. Pedro Larrea Rubio

Dr. Pedro Larrea Rubio will deliver a bilingual poetry reading of Rita Dove's "Sonata Mulaticca" at the University of Houston-Downtown Skyline Lounge. Following the reading, there will be a Q & A session to conclude the event.

Pedro Larrea (Spain, 1981) is the author of three books of poems: "The Wizard's Manuscript," "The Free Shore," and "The Tribe and the Flame." His poetry has been featured in, among others, the prestigious Spanish journal "Revista de Occidente." He has read as a guest poet in venues such as the Library of Congress in Washington DC, the New York Public Library, New York University, Emory University, the University of Kentucky, the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site, the International Poetry Festival of Granada (Spain), the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and elsewhere. As an essayist, he has authored the scholarly study "Federico García Lorca in Buenos Aires" (2015). As a translator, he has published the Spanish edition of Kevin Young's "Book of Hours" ("Libro de horas," Valparaíso, 2018). He received his MA and Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia after graduating in literary theory and comparative literature from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Lynchburg, in Virginia, and tours nationally and internationally performing his poetry.

Of Pedro Larrea's work, Spanish poet and visual artist Juan Carlos Mestre has said: "His poetics have given us a body of work in permanent transformation, challenging in its critical density, conceptually rigorous, and lucid in its emotional insight. His work has thus already become an indispensable point of reference for contemporary Spanish lyric. His plumbing of subjective experience captures in the pulsing wonder of language, in the textual object, and in the creative imagination a discursive tension of new resonances, of innovative forms and radiating senses; he is a wise appraisal of humanity and the semantic atmosphere of its world, words to build an ethical shelter for truth and for analogical thinking, linking consciousness to the unveiling of another more intense beauty, an aesthetic diction in unflagging flight from habit, a voice as cultivated as it is impassioned in its formal conduct, a text open to the future's expanding horizons of meaning."

This event will take place in the Skyline Lounge (listed as the coffee house in the image above), and is located on the 3rd floor (Main Street Level) of the Academic Building directly behind the Auditorium. Please use the above images for the event location. Limited visitor parking has been reserved for this event, and is available on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Host or Publisher Co-sponsored by the HHL Dept., B.A. in Spanish & CCRS at UHD