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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Presents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A Reading of “America” and a Conversation</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">with Fernando Valverde and Carolyn Forché</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">HQ (Humanities Quadrangle) 136,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In Fernando Valverde’s<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><i>América</i>, “sorrow is ancient.” Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">deconstructs the legacy of empire. From the Mississippi River to Fulton Avenue, from slavery to “lone wolf”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">shooters, Valverde grieves but does not wince away from all that is lost to greed and a culture of violence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Valverde’s vibrant voice and convictions are translated and introduced by Carolyn Forché, herself a world-renowned<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Fernando Valverde (Granada, Spain) is widely regarded as one of the most important younger Spanish-language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">poets and is the recipient of several awards such as the Federico García Lorca and the Antonio Machado Prizes. In<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Institute of the City University of New York. Valverde served for a decade as a journalist for Spain’s major paper,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">El País</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">. Director of Granada’s International Festival of Poetry, he teaches at the University of Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Carolyn Forché is a poet, activist, and translator, celebrated with some of the most significant recognition in the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">literary world. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Forché is widely recognized for coining the term “poetry of witness.” Her<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2019 memoir about El Salvador,<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><i>What You Have Heard Is True</i>, won the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Rights in Latin America and was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction. A Yale Windham-Campbell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">winner, she is a professor at Georgetown University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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