LATROBE, PA – Saint Vincent College will host a poetry reading and book launch at 5 p.m. March 10 in the Verostko Center for the Arts located inside the Dale P. Latimer Library.
The readings will be taken from three books published last December by Eulalia Books: “The Mistaken Place of Things” by Mexican poet Gabriela Aguirre, translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin; “Guerrilla Blooms” by Chilean Mapuche poet Daniela Catrileo, translated by Edie Adams; and “Waking in the Sahara” by Puerto Rican poet Zaira Pacheco, translated by Lauren Shapiro.
All three translators will be at the event, which is free and open to the public. Information about the books is available at www.eulaliabooks.com. Cesarco Eglin is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She has authored six collections of poetry and has translated works originally published in Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol and Galician.
Shapiro is a poet who has translated creative work from Spanish, Italian, Vietnamese and Arabic to English. She is an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
Adams is a translator and scholar of contemporary Latin American literature. She is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Southern California, where she is writing a dissertation on the legacies of colonial naming practices in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Flyer for poetry reading
