When: Thursday, April 26
Where: Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church: 131 East 10th Street
What time: 8 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
With Jayne Cortez, Mónica de la Torre, Mariela Dreyfus, Clayton Eshleman, Forrest Gander, Edward Hirsch, Sam Shepard, Cecilia Vicuña & Anne Waldman
Tickets: $8 at the door; free to PEN American Center, Poets House, and Poetry Project membersCo-sponsored by The Poetry Project, Poets House, and The University of California Press
A reading in celebration of the supreme poetical innovator César Vallejo (1892–1938), whose syntax-breaking search for meaning has been compared to those of James Joyce and Paul Celan. This Peruvian poet's revolutionary works, Trilce (1922) and The Black Heralds (1919), had a major impact on Modernist poetics and Latin American literature.
Official Website: http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096