Online event 10th November: Raquel Salas Rivera On Self-Translation

 Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:30 PM (Chicago time, UTC-6) [Central Europe Time: 11:30pm]

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and faculty working in Translation Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies, with support from the Program in Creative Writing. The event will be the first to be live streamed on the new Translation Studies YouTube Channel (https://youtu.be/AM2I0nWH36w), and we hope this format will allow for greater access and ease of viewing. Please note that to use the chat function or pose questions at the end of the talk, you’ll need to be logged into a YouTube account or a Gmail account.

Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. Named the 2018-2019 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia and winner of the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra, Salas Rivera has published five books of poetry. lo terciario/ the tertiary (Noemi Press, 2019), won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds, LLC, 2019), was longlisted for the 2020 Pen America Open Book Award and was a finalist for CLMP’s 2020 Firecracker Award, and x/ex/exis (University of Arizona Press, 2020), won the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. Salas Rivera holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and resides in Puerto Rico.

Source: https://arts.uchicago.edu/event/raquel-salas-rivera-self-translation