Free Poetry Reading at UMFA
with Acclaimed New York City Poet
Mónica de la Torre
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to host renowned New York City-based poet, Mónica de la Torre, for a free public poetry reading on Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 3:30 pm. Co-sponsored by the University of Utah Department of English and Creative Writing Program, the reading will take place in the UMFA’s Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr. Auditorium. This program is presented in conjunction with the UMFA’s current exhibition, Las Artes de México from the Gilcrease Museum of Art, on view through September 26, 2010.
A NYFA 2009 fellow in poetry and senior editor of BOMB Magazine, Mónica de la Torre is well known for her poetry and conceptual art books. A bilingual author and poet, Torre has written several acclaimed poetry books, including Talk Shows (Switchback, 2007); Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria, 2006); and Public Domain (Roof Books, 2008). She is co-author of the artist book, Appendices, Illustrations & Notes; co-editor of the anthology, Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002); and co-editor of the anthology of post-Latino writing, Malditos latinos, malditos sudacas: Poesía hispanoamericana Made in USA, published recently in Mexico City. She translated the poetry books, Poems by Gerardo Deniz (Lost Roads) and Mauve Sea-Orchids by Lila Zemborain (Belladonna Books). A new poetry book by Torre entitled SOCIEDAD ANONIMA, published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Bonobos, is scheduled to premier this fall in Mexico City.
In addition to reading excerpts from her own work, Torre will read some of her translations of Mexican poetry, primarily poems by Gerardo Deniz, and she will perform poems by the late Mexican poet and visual artist, Ulises Carrión.
"Mónica's poetry -- informed by her work as a scholar of Latin American political movements and literary avant-gardes, as well as her interest in music and the visual art -- offers important insights into how identities are constructed at the intersection of intimate, internal, affective states and anonymously mediated social institutions,” says Craig Dworkin, a professor of English at the University of Utah. “The complexities of the persona constructed on-line, for instance, under the name that you share with strangers, via information that may or may not be accurate, up-to-date, or under your control but that none-the-less defines who ‘you’ are to those who search for your name.”
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