c/c reading 003:

(Saturday, 7 May 2011)

Rachel Levitsky

Valerie Mejer

We’d like to enthusiastically invite you to the third installment of the c/c reading series.  This bilingual reading from Rachel Levitsky’s book NEIGHBOR, and it’s Spanish translation Vecino by Valerie Mejer, will present a specific focus on the process of translation in regards to site-specific details, and the particular intimate challenges of translating a given locale.  This event will also feature a reading of the poets play within NEIGHBOR and will conclude with an opportunity for discussion/Q&A.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you there!

- Jamie Townsend & Nicholas A. DeBoer

Fergie’s Pub

1414 Sansom St (5:30pm to 7:30pm)

($5 suggested donation)

Poet and painter Valerie Mejer was born in Mexico City.  Her book of poetry De Elefante a Elefante, was awarded the Spanish International Prize “Gerardo Diego 1966″.  She is also the author of de la ola, el atajo (Amagord, Spain 2009) Geografías de Niebla (2008) and Esta Novela Azul (2004).  Her poems in English have appeared in England in Poetry London and in the U.S. in the Hunger Mountain Review, Nimrod and The American Poetry Review among others.  She has translated poetry collections by C.D. Wright, Charles Wright, Forest Gander and Pascale Petit and is currently working on an anthology of selected poems by the Australian poet Les Murray.

Rachel Levitsky‘s second poetry collection NEIGHBOR was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2009.  Her first novel, The Story of My Accident is Ours will be published by Futurepoem in 2011.  Levitsky teaches Writing and Literature at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Bard Prison Initiative and Pratt Institute.  She is found and member of Belladonna* Collaborative–a hub of feminist avant-garde literary action.