[Wgcp-whc] session tomorrow: Freitas and Rilke Shake

[Richard Deming]

Comrades,

I wanted to send a note to remind everyone that our next session will  
be tomorrow from 3-5 in room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center.  We  
will be discussing Angelica Freitas's Rilke Shake translated by poet/ 
translator Hilary Kaplan.  I circulated the poems in my last email and  
if anyone needs this sent again, please contact me directly. We'll be  
talking about Freitas's work as well as questions of the process of  
translating.

here is Freitas's bio:

orn 8 April 1973 in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Freitas studied  
journalism at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in  
Porto Alegre, then worked as a reporter in São Paulo. She now lives in  
Pelotas and Holland, where she is translating poetry and working on a  
second book. She has published poems in the Brazilian journal Inimigo  
Rumor, and in Diário de Poesía (Argentina) and aguasfurtadas  
(Portugal). A translation of “love (collage)” appeared in Issue 6  
(Spring 2007), dedicated to Brazilian poetry, of the American poetry  
journal Aufgabe; translations into English of “What is a  
tschüsstschüss?” (“o que é um baibai?”) and “Love, a collage” can be  
found in the German online art magazine Hilda. Freitas’ work is also  
included in the anthology Cuatro poetas recientes de Brasil (Buenos  
Aires: Black & Vermelho, 2006). She co-edits the Brazilian poetry  
journal Modo de Usar & Co (in print and online at  
revistamododeusar.blogspot.com) and keeps her own blog, tome uma  
xícara de chá (loop.blogspot.com).

Here is a link to Freitas reading Berlin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPyiNS5xkEw&NR=1

By the way, I'm fairly confident that Freitas will be the first poet  
we have featured in the WGCP that has a twitter account.


Also, we now have a facebook account.  And don't forget our blog:
http://wgcp.wordpress.com/

Virtually,
Richard Deming
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