Contemporary Brazilian Poetry at Portland State

This Thursday, PSU presents the poets Rodrigo Bravo and Flavia Rocha, along with translator Sean Nagus. They will read from their own work and also participate in a discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Rodrigo Bravo is a translator and researcher in Linguistics with emphasis in translation of poetic discourse, comparative literature and stychology. Lecturer at the graduate school of music at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, he develops his doctoral research at the Graduate School of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at USP. Curator of the TransFormações exposition, at Casa das Rosas (SP) (2017), he also serves as a member of the editorial board of the literary series Neûron at Editora Córrego. Bravo authored academic essays, articles and the books Ernesto na Torre de Babel (2016), Poligonia do Haikai (2017), Teso (2018),Um Livro para Rufino (2018), and Mavórcio Libreto (2019). He is one of the creators of Saccades: a review of Contemporary Brazilian poetry.

Sean Negus is an Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts where he teaches in the Writing & Literature Program along with other colleges in the Bay Area. He completed a fellowship at Stanford University researching the literary transnational. He is a translator of poetry from Portuguese and co-edits with Rodrigo Bravo an ongoing publication, Saccades, focusing on contemporary Brazilian poetry. In 2018, he guest/co-edited an edition of DUSIE magazine featuring the work of over 52 contemporary Brazilian poets and visual artists. Poems of his have appeared in WebConjunctions, Otoliths, TINGE, Poe(ecology), and other publications. Hurricane Music, his first collection of poems, is just out from Editora Córrego.

Flavia Rocha is a Brazilian writer and journalist. She has three books of poetry published in Brazil: “A Casa Azul ao Meio-Dia” (Travessa dos Editores, 2005), “Quartos Habitáveis” (Confraria do Vento, 2009) and “Um País” (Confraria do Vento, 2015). She holds an M.F.A. in Writing/Poetry from Columbia University and for 13 years was an editor for the New York based multimedia literary magazine Rattapallax. She is the founder, with Steven Richter, of Academia Internacional de Cinema, a film school with branches in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school is now launching an online branch in the U.S., International Academy of Film & Arts. She has also co-written the screenplay of the indie film “Birds of Neptune”, directed by Richter, and other forthcoming projects.