Latin American Reading Group | Latin Expressions Special Edition

We're excited to announce a special edition of our Latin American Short Stories Reading Group, part of the Latin Expressions series. This event welcomes anyone passionate about the rich narratives crafted by Latin American writers.

Join us on Wednesday, October 16, at 6:30 pm at the SFU Vancouver Campus - Belzberg Library as we dive into the poems "Meeting with my father in the orchard," "Meeting with my mother in the old kitchen," "The ghost of a dog," "Like a dog," and "I always dream of a place that is some other place," by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis. The discussion will be led by George McWhirter and Carmen Rodríguez, who will guide us through the intricate themes and cultural insights of Aridjis’s work.

Don’t miss this engaging exploration of literature and conversation!

The stories are available in both the original Spanish version and English translation. Discussions will be led in English. No background in Latin American literature or culture is required.

Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Location: SFU (Vancouver Campus) - Belzberg Library - Study Room (515 W Hastings St, Vancouver)

Free Event

Find the poems in the link below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CbiMruSvuayDVD-GqJlsIYBdVLRRqW-Q/edit

About the facilitators

George McWhirter shared the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize with Chinua Achebe in 1972 for Catalan Poems (Oberon Press). His own poetry is anthologized in The Penguin Book Of Canadian Verse And Irish Writing In The Twentieth Century (Cork University Press). He has translated and published prose by Marco Denevi, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Arregui, and the following books from the Spanish: Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence by Homero Aridjis (New Directions), which won The Griffin International Poetry Prize 2024; The Selected Poems Of José Emilio Pacheco (New Directions), which won the F.R. Scott Prize for Translation; Eyes To See Otherwise: The Selected Poems Of Homero Aridjis (Carcanet and New Directions), Solar Poems by Homero Aridjis (City Lights) and A Time Of Angels (Fondo de Cultura Económica and City Lights, 2012). His version of Hecuba by Euripides was produced by Blackbird Theatre at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in 2009, one of his projects as Vancouver’s Inaugural Poet Laureate from 2007 – 2009.

Carmen Rodríguez is a Chilean-Canadian bilingual writer and the award-winning author of Guerra Prolongada/Protracted War (poetry); and a body to remember with/De cuerpo entero (short stories); and the novels Retribution/Chiles døtre and Atacama. Rodríguez also has an extensive career as an educator and journalist. As an educator, she has taught literature and creative writing in myriad settings and worked in adult literacy and popular education with Indigenous Peoples and other marginalized communities in the Americas. As a journalist, she was a Vancouver Correspondent for Radio Canada International for twenty-two years and one of the founders of Revista Aquelarre Magazine.

With the support of Simon Fraser University (SFU)

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