Ruth Lepson is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory and has often collaborated with musicians. Her most recent book, Ask Anyone (Pressed Wafer), is accompanied by musical settings—see her website, ruthlepson.com, and received the Phillip Whalen Award from Chax Press. Her other books of poetry are Dreaming in Color (Alice James Books), Morphology (blazeVOX), and I Went Looking for You (BlazeVOX). She edited Poetry from Sojourner: Feminist Anthology (Illinois). She has just put together a book of her new & selected poems. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including spoKe, Ping Pong, Let the Bucket Down, Agni, Ploughshares, and The Women’s Review of Books, and she has given many readings, including in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in Barcelona, as well as on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She grew up in the D.C. area and lives in Cambridge.
Oliver Strand is a visiting lecturer in Studio Foundation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Wood Shop Coordinator at Harvard University’s Dept. of Art, Film, and Visual Studies. He received an MFA from Brown University, where he received the Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop Prize for Innovative Writing. His poetry has appeared in Entropy, The Fanzine, Poor Claudia, Burning House Press, and the Spoon River Poetry Review.
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen received an M. F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop after a decade of experience in organizations focused on social change. Author of chapbooks This Paper Lantern and Dead-Eye Spring, she has published poems and translations in the journals The Bombay Gin, Transom, Small Po[r]tions, Drunken Boat, Caketrain, Jubilat, Sixth Finch, Third Coast, Solstice Literary Magazine, TWO LINES Online, DIAGRAM, EOAGH, Split Rock Review, among others, as well as the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she initiated a Creative Writing Minor. She is also the Poetry Editor for the literary magazine Pangyrus. She was a finalist recipient for a Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship. Originally from Illinois, she has lived in Jamaica Plain for twenty years, now with her husband, twin sons, and several pets. She loves, more than anything, to laugh.
“¿Cuál es la relación de la obra de arte con la comunicación? Ninguna. Ninguna. La obra de arte no es un instrumento de comunicación. La obra de arte no tiene nada que ver con la comunicación. La obra de arte no contiene hablando estrictamente la menor comunicación. En cambio hay una afinidad fundamental entre la obra de arte y el acto de resistencia. Ahí sí tiene algo que ver con la información y la comunicación: sí, como acto de resistencia.” Deleuze
A conversation about Spanish poet Federico García Lorca
Professor Maurer writes about Spanish poetry from Garcilaso
to the so-called Generación del 27. Three of his major research interests are
biography, textual criticism, and poetry’s relations with music and painting. His most recent book with Andrew A.
Anderson, Federico Garcia Lorca en Nueva York y La Habana: Cartas y recuerdos
(Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013).
Prof. Maurer is the editor of García Lorca’s Collected Poems and Selected Verse; his lectures (Conferencias); his early prose (Prosa inédita de juventud), and editor, with Andrew A. Anderson, of García Lorca’s complete letters (Epistolario completo). His translated books include Lorca’s Deep Song and Other Prose, In Search of Duende, and A Season in Granada, a collection of letters between Lorca and Salvador Dalí (Sebastian’s Arrows published by Swan Isle Press), The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián, an anthology of Gracián’s other writings (A Pocket Mirror for Heroes) and works by Juan Ramón Jiménez (The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work) (Spanish translation fall 2016, Madrid, Fundamentos). His biography of American painter and writer Walter Inglis Anderson won the 2003 Eudora Welty Award and the Non Fiction Prize of the Mississippi Academy of Arts and Letters.
He recently edited “Streets and Dreams,” a digital humanities project mapping Lorca’s movements in New York (1929-30) and co-curated, with Andres Soria Olmedo, the exhibition “Back Tomorrow: Lorca, Poet in New York” at the New York Public Library. Maurer is a Miembro Correspondiente of the Real Academia Española.
“Jardín deshecho: Lorca y el amor”, an exhibition of manuscripts, photos, letters and drawings related to love–the central theme of Lorca’s poetry and theater–will be at the Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada until January 6, 2020.
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