Prismatic Park: A Workshop with Mónica de la Torre
Schedule
Thu Apr 25 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location
Cricket Hill Barn, Bennington College | North Bennington, VT
Mónica de la Torre is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020), and a translation of Defense of the Idol (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) by Chilean Modernist Omar Cáceres. She coedited the anthologies Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (Primary Information, 2020) and Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon, 2002). In 2022, she received the C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Born and raised in Mexico City, she came to the US on a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue an MFA and PhD in Spanish literature at Columbia University. A former editor for BOMB Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail, she teaches at Brooklyn College and Bard’s summer MFA program.