The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Time: 2-3 p.m. and 6-8 p.m., EST
As part of The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2023, Elizabeth Torres will perform at the Round Table on Poetry and Artificial Intelligence, 2 – 3 p.m., Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th Fl, New York.
That evening, 6 – 8 p.m., Torres will perform at the Multilingual Poetry Reading at the Consulate General and Promotional Center of the Argentine Republic in New York, 12 W 56th St, New York.
The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2023 is the tenth multilingual poetry festival organized by the City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences in collaboration with the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association; and Instituto Cervantes New York. Professors and writers Carlos Aguasaco, Yrene Santos, and Carlos Velásquez Torres curate this annual event.
Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) is a poet, multimedia artist, and literary translator. She is the author of more than twenty books of poetry in various languages and has toured more than thirty countries with her work. Torres is director of the arts quarterly publication Red Door Magazine, founder of the Poetic Phonotheque, and host of the Red Transmissions podcast.
About the book:
Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement. Conjuring dreamlike visions of extravagant fruits and rivers animated by the power of divination, these poems follow the speaker from the lash of war’s arrival through an urgent escape and reinvention in a land that saves with maternal instinct but also smothers its children.
