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Episode 4 – Chloe Garcia Roberts

Chloe Garcia Roberts is the author of The Reveal (Noemi Press) and the translator of Li Shangyin’s Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellaneous Notes (New Directions), which was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and a collected poetry of Li Shangyin (NYRB Poets). Her essays, poems, and translations have appeared in the publications BOMBA Public SpaceKenyon Review and Spoon River Poetry Review, among others. She lives in Boston and is managing editor for Harvard Review.

Yo nunca guardé rebaños, de Fernando PESSOA

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En El guardador de rebaños Fernando Pessoa propone una nueva forma de ver y de existir. Alejado del melancólico tono de su prosa poética, estas versiones aforísticas suenan como la voz misteriosa de un presocrático, como las sentencias de Heráclito, mismo que comparó el tamaño de su pie con el del sol. Este es el primer poema del único poemario publicado de Pessoa en vida, en versión de Juan Carlos Villavicencio.

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Yo nunca guardé rebaños,
pero es como si los guardara.
Mi alma es como un pastor,
conoce al sol y al viento
y anda de la mano de las Estaciones
siguiendo y mirando.
Toda la paz de la Naturaleza sin gente
viene a sentarse a mi lado.
Pero me quedo triste como una puesta de Sol
para nuestra imaginación,
cuando se enfría el fondo de la planicie
y se siente entrar la noche
como una mariposa por la ventana.

Pero mi…

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Episode 3 – Amanda Cook

Amanda Cook lives in Gloucester with her husband, James, and children Abigail and Samuel. She sees writing as an integral part of life. She knits, spins yarn, plays fiddle, feeds people and dances when she pleases. She teaches and works at the Gloucester Writers Center. Her book, Ironstone Whirlygig, was published by Bootstrap Press in 2017. She is currently working on Letter to Maximus, a poem-by-poem reaction to Olson’s Maximus poems.

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Episode 2 – Kevin McLellan

Kevin McLellan is the author of Hemispheres (Fact-Simile Editions, forthcoming), Ornitheology (The Word Works, 2018), [box] (Letter [r] Press, 2016), Tributary (Barrow Street, 2015), and Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010). He won the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize and Gival Press’ 2016 Oscar Wilde Award, and his poems appear in numerous literary journals including American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Kenyon Review, West BranchWestern Humanities Review, and Witness. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Episode 1 – Michael Franco

Michael Franco is a poet, playwright and artist. He has been contributing editor for Lift magazine, and a member of the poetry panel for Agni magazine. For ten years he directed the Word of Mouth Reading Series in Cambridge MA. In the fall of 2016 he inaugurated a new series, Xit the Bear in the Press Room at Oxford Street and he is a member of the board of directors for The Pioneer Valley Poetry Festival.

His publications include:
A Book of Measure: The Journals of the Man who Keeps Bees (2017)
The Marvels of David Leering (2017)
The Library Of Dr Dee (2006)
How To Live (1998)
The Journals of the Man Who Kept Bees: Complete second Circumference (1996)
Tales from the Portuguese (1996)
A Book of Measure (opening circumference) (1993)
Parallel Lines (1988)
Conferences (1986)
Narration (1985)
Ancient Art and Ritual (1977)

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Interview

About Michael’s Word of Mouth reading series

Michael reading at Grolier Bookstore in Cambridge