Kent Johnson reads from Spanish translations: the poetry of Jaime Saenz

Tuesday, March 18, 8 pm

UT Campus

Joynes Reading Room

(Behind Corothers Residence Hall)

2501 Whitus Avenue



Kent Johnson grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay and worked in 1980 and 1983 as a literacy teacher in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution, an experience that led to his translation of many poems from the working class Talleres de Poesia there, later collected in the volume A Nation of Poets. He is author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books and chapbooks, including three collections recently published in translation abroad. His most recent books of translation (in collaboration with Forrest Gander) are of the Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz: Immanent Visitor (California) and The Night (Princeton), both of which received awards from PEN. Homage to the Last Avant-Garde, a large gathering of Johnson's new and selected poems, will be released this year by Shearsman Books in the UK. He lives in Freeport, Illinois.



The Joynes Reading Room can be found off the courtyard behind Corothers/University Honor's Center Building on Whitus Avenue.

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