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Guerilla Translation: Contemporary Brazilian Poetry

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

This presentation is a part of the Just Off Site: Passages Bookshop Literary Festival. Translators of contemporary Brazilian poetry will present and discuss the ways in which translation serves as vehicles for literary, cultural, and transnational activism, examining the broader implications of the art of translation as its practice is embedded within social, cultural, political, and aesthetic matrices. Participants: Hilary Kaplan, Chris Daniels, and Sean Negus. Contact: David Abel & Sean Negus

Free

SPARE ROOM PRESENTS CHRIS DANIELS & DAVID ABEL [POSTPONED]

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Doors open at 7:00 pm; reading at 7:30 pm Admission free; no late entry Masks recommended Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Chris Daniels is a self-taught (feral) translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of Josely Vianna Baptista (On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids), Fernando Pessoa (Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos), and Adelaide Ivanova (The Hammer). One Impossible Step, the selected poems of Orides Fontela, is forthcoming from…

Free

SPARE ROOM PRESENTS CHRIS DANIELS & DAVID ABEL

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Please note new date & time: Sunday, March 5 Doors open at 5:30 pm; reading at 6:00 pm Admission free; no late entry Masks recommended Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 503-388-7665 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  Chris Daniels is a self-taught (feral) translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of Josely Vianna Baptista (On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids), Fernando Pessoa (Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos), and Adelaide Ivanova (The Hammer). One Impossible Step,…

Free

Chris Daniels, Tom De Beauchamp, & Flavia Rocha (Spare Room Reading)

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading by CHRIS DANIELS TOM DE BEAUCHAMP FLAVIA ROCHA   Wednesday, April 3 7:30 pm   Free admission Doors open at 7:00 pm; no late entry Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 Portland, OR 97209 info@passagesbookshop.com 503-388-7665 ============================================================== Upcoming Event at Passages April 7       Marathon reading: Keats Endymion & Boone Century of Clouds ============================================================== Chris Daniels is a self-taught, feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. Tom DeBeauchamp is a fiction writer living in Portland, Oregon. His work has been published in DIAGRAM, Full-Stop, Smokelong Quarterly, and other publications. He is currently working on a novel, The Not-Vampire, about country music, industrial design, various creatures of the night, love, and family drama. Flavia Rocha is the author of four books of poems…

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Marathon reading: Keats & Boone

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Spare Room Reading Series presents our annual marathon reading: Endymion by John Keats & Century of Clouds by Bruce Boone Sunday, April 7, 2024 10:00 am until we finish (probably around 6:00-7:00 pm) Passages Bookshop, 1801 NW Upshur St., Suite 660, Portland Free admission; come and go as you please Readers include: David Abel, Chris Ashby, Chris Daniels, Laura Feldman, Rodney Koeneke, Sam Lohmann, Seann McCollum, Joe Safdie, Andrew Simon, & James Yeary. ============================================================== Also Upcoming at Passages April 3      Reading by Chris Daniels. Tom De Beauchamp, & Flavia Rocha ==============================================================

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