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| Tino Villanueva (Left) with Doug Holder at Endicott College |
An Evening at the Grolier…
Featuring Poet TINO VILLANUEVA,
Reading from So Spoke Penelope,
published by the GROLIER POETRY PRESS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2018 AT 7PM
Grolier Poetry Book Shop
6 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
We
have an exciting night planned, Our gathering, which features poet Tino
Villanueva, reading from his Grolier Poetry Press book So Spoke Penelope,
is a night that honors our legacy of bringing poets and those who love
poetry together, from 1927 to present, so as to explore ideas and
experience the power of poetry's unifying voice to connect us ever more
deeply.
So Spoke Penelope has been translated into Spanish and
Italian, with Greek and French translations underway. Maria Azucena
Lopez Cobo will read excerpts from the Spanish translation. Livia
Meneghin will read excerpts from the Italian translation.
A RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW
with Italian and Spanish food, Prosecco and fine wines, and dessert.
TICKETS ARE LIMITED, PLEASE PURCHASE IN ADVANCE TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE:
https://conta.cc/2QWiCAs
About So Spoke Penelope
"...For
what we have in So Spoke Penelope is a work many years in the making, a
work indicative of a hard-won recognition on the poet's part, (as
Werner Sollors has
put it) that 'the whole range of human experience is contained in
Penelope at Ithaca' ...With wisdom and an adept style, Villanueva has
managed in this work to negotiate his way through the many polarities
that bedevil us–– male vs. female, West vs. non-West,
old times vs. new times."
-Ifeanyi Menkiti, Editor, Grolier Poetry Series & Director, The Grolier Poetry Foundation and Forums Trust
About the Author, Tino Villanueva
Tino
Villanueva is the author of seven books of poetry, including Scene from
the Movie GIANT (1993), which won a 1994 American Book Award. Six of
his poems appear
in The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011). His latest, So
Spoke Penelope (2013), has been translated into Italian and Spanish. One
of his ekphrastic poems appears in the March 2016 issue of Poetry
magazine. He recently retired from Boston University.
Join us–celebrate our legacy–and support us as we move from our 90th into our 100th year…and beyond.
To purchase tickets:
https://conta.cc/2QWiCAs
An Evening to Honor the History and the Legacy of the Grolier
Take a step off Plympton Street, walk through the doors of our Book Shop, and into
the rich cultural world of the Grolier. The Grolier has been a home to
poets and those who love poetry for almost a century.
The walls of the Grolier are lined with photographs of our friends, and
of poets who have read with us when we first opened in 1927, through
the present. The legacy of all the poets who have read here is
palpable–the Grolier is a magical place, a place where
poets past and present meet.
Join us–celebrate our legacy–and support us as we move from our 90th into our 100th year…and beyond.
To purchase tickets:
https://conta.cc/2QWiCAs
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