Date: Oct 23, 2012

The Rain Always Rises

November 1; A Symposium on the Poetry of Miguel-Angel Zapata

Presented by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
 

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY … Hofstra University’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is presenting an event titled The Rain Always Rises: A Symposium on the Poetry of Miguel-Angel Zapata. Dr.  Zapata, Associate Professor of Spanish at Hofstra University and a noted Peruvian poet and scholar, is considered one of the most innovative poets of his generation in Peru and one of Latin America’s most influential poetic voices over the past 10 years. The symposium will be held at the Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus, on Thursday, November 1, 2012, from 2-5:30 p.m., followed by a reception.
 
This symposium is free and open to the public. For more information call 516-463-5140.
 
Dr. Zapata was recently awarded the 2011 Latino Literature Prize in the Poetry Category for his book Fragmentos de una manzana y otros poemas (Fragments of an Apple and Other Poems), published by the Biblioteca Sibila/BBVA Foundation, one of the leading and most prestigious publishers in Spain. Among Dr. Zapata’s recent published works are the celebrated Ensayo sobre la rosa. Poesía selecta (2010), Mario Vargas Llosa and the Persistence of Memory (2006),  A Sparrow in the House of Seven Patios (2005), El cielo que me escribe (2002), Moradas de la voz. Notas sobre poesía latinoamericana contemporánea (2002), and Escribir bajo el polvo (2000).
 
Symposium participants include:
 
Alfonso Garcia Osuna, Professor of Spanish, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York

Roger Santiváñez, Visiting Professor, Temple University
“El susurro de las rosas en la poesía de M.A.Z.”
 
Cristián Gómez Olivarez, Assistant Professor, Case Western Universityn
“Miguel Ángel Zapata y sus contextos (más allá de Latinoamérica)”
 
Isaac Goldemberg, Distinguished Professor, Hostos Community College, City University of New York
“Miguel Angel Zapata: Navigating Between Verse and Prose”
 
Keynote speaker Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
“Viva Zapata!”
 
Rolando Perez, Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York
“Miguel Angel Zapata and the Interior Spaces of Poetry”
 
Ana Gallego Cuiñas, Associate Professor, University of Granada-Yale University
“’La poesía es la lluvia que sube’: sobre el último poemario de M.A. Zapata”
 
Marta Lopez-Luaces, Associate Professor, Montclair State University
“La mirada y la palabra poética en la obra de Miguel Ángel Zapata”
 
Keynote speaker  Randolph D. Pope, Commonwealth Professor, University of Virginia-Charlottesville
“What Makes a Real Poet?”
 
At the end of the symposium there will be a poetry reading by Miguel-Angel Zapata, followed by a reception.
 
Colleagues of Dr. Zapata who will be speaking at the symposium include Bernard J. Firestone, Dean, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Sabine Loucif, Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; and Gregory Pell, Associate Professor of Italian.
 
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