The University of Arizona Press
When: Friday, May 5, 7 p.m.
Where: Cwrw, 32 King Street, Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom
Write 4word presents a night of poetry in West Wales, UK. Poets in performance including Welsh Iraqi poet Hanan Issa, Irish poet Stephen James Smith and Colombian American poet Elizabeth Torres. Torres will read from her poetry collection Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes.
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.
In this bilingual collection, poet Elizabeth Torres threads together the stories of family dynamics and the realities of migration with the archetypes of tarot and the traditional Lotería game, used for centuries as an object of divination and entertainment.
Torres is an award-winning poet, multimedia artist and translator, author of over 20 books of poetry published in various languages.
