Uruguay, with only 3.3 million people, is the smallest Spanish speaking country in South America, but it has long and strong tradition of women poets. Join us for a celebration of contemporary Uruguayan women poeta with work read by the poet’s translators, local poets and MFAs from the UW-Madison Creative Writing Program.
Another Voice Sings: Uruguayan Women Poets
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, visual artist and translator. Her most recent poetry collections are I Want to Tell You (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Un pez dorado no te sirve para nada/ A Goldfish Buys You Nothing (Editorial Yaugurú, Uruguay, 2023). Her translations include Love Poems by Idea Vilariño and The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia (University of Pittsburgh Press). She is the Zona Gale Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
William Blair is the publisher and editor of Song Bridge Press and the translator of The Other Island of the Songs by Uruguayan poet Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira.
Jeannine Marie Pitas is a poet and translator of the Uruguayan poet Marosa di Giorgio’s The History of Violets and I Remember Nightfall and author of the poetry collection, Things Seen and Unseen. She teaches at the University of Dubuque.
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