An Evening at the Grolier… Featuring Poet TINO VILLANUEVA, Reading from So Spoke Penelope, published by the GROLIER POETRY PRESS

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