SKANKY POSSUM READING at 12th STREET BOOKS

SUNDAY, FEB 10 at 7pm BARRY SCHWABSKY & ROBERTO TEJADA

Barry Schwabsky is an American poet and art critic living in London. His poetry has been published in a number of chapbooks, from presses such as Burning Deck, Seeing Eye Books, and Black Square Editions, as well as in his book Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press, 2003). His new full-length collection, Book Left Open in the Rain, will be published this year by Black Square. His criticism appears regularly in The Nation, Artforum, and many other publications.



A native of Los Angeles, Roberto Tejada lived in Mexico City where he founded the journal Mandorla: New Writing From the Americas, a forum for advanced poetry and translation; he continues to co-edit the journal with Kristin Dykstra and Gabriel Bernal Granados. He was the 2006 recipient of an NEA translation award for his rendering of the Cuban postmodernist José Lezama Lima, and his own poetry has been widely published in the United States and Latin America. He is the author, most recently, of Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006); and forthcoming this year are National Camera, and A Ver: Celia Alvarez Muñoz, both from the University of Minnesota Press. In the fall he will be joining the Department of Art and Art History at UT Austin.

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