The University of Miami Creative Writing Program welcomes poet and novelist Bino A. Realuyo and writer Susana Chávez-Silverman to its 2011-2012 reading series, Polyglot Writers: Writing Across Languages.
The series celebrates our global society, where languages floating across borders, race, and class have created a community of polyglot people, represented by 146 nationalities of students attending UM. Polyglot Writers explores the fluidity of words as they define and redesign the narratives of writers who come from multiple languages, cultures, and traditions. This year the Creative Writing Program has also partnered with Books & Books to host writers’ salons, featuring desserts, after-dinner drinks, and conversations that focus on the play of language in all its forms.
Novelist and poet Bino A. Realuyo is the author of The Umbrella Country, a novel, and The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, a poetry collection. He was also the editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings About New York City and The Literary Review’s Spring 2000 special issue on the Philippines: Am Here: Contemporary Filipino Writings in English.
Susana Chávez-Silverman is a co-editor of Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad and of Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American and Spanish Culture. Her books, Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories (2004) and Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters (2010), were published by the University of Wisconsin Press. They are inspired by the first-hand accounts of the so-called New World sent “home” by the early conquistadores.
Both writers will appear at all of the following events:
Multicultural Dinner/Discussion (for current UM students)
Tuesday, April 10 at 5 p.m. in Hecht Master’s Apartment, Hecht Residential College
Writers’ Salon with Gema Perez Sanchez
Tuesday, April 10 at 8:30 p.m. at Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables.
Gema Perez Sanchez, director of graduate studies, associate professor of Spanish, and author of Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to la movida, will moderate.
Craft Workshop/Discussion (for current UM graduate students)
Wednesday, April 11 at 3:15 p.m. at the Ashe Building, Room 427, Coral Gables campus
Reading
Wednesday, April 11 at 8:30 p.m. at the CAS Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables campus
The “Polyglot Writers” Reading Series is sponsored by the University of Miami’s Creative Writing Program, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, American Studies Program, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures’ Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, Multicultural Student Affairs, and Books & Books.
For more information, contact the director of the University of Miami Creative Writing Program, M. Evelina Galang, at [email protected] or Jen Mehan at [email protected].
