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Contemporary Brazilian Poetry at Portland State

Portland State University - Fariborz Maseeh Hall 1855 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

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…

Free

Spare Room reading: Bravo, Rocha, & Negus

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

An evening of Brazilian poetry in Portuguese & English with RODRIGO BRAVO FLÁVIA ROCHA SEAN NEGUS RODRIGO BRAVO holds a Master’s in Linguistics with a background in Classics and Hebrew Studies at the University of São Paulo. He 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…

Free