In Conversation: On Hyam Plutzik 32 Poems // 32 Poemas

Name: In Conversation: On Hyam Plutzik 32 Poems // 32 Poemas
Start: 2021-11-17T12:00:00-05:00
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32 Poems // 32 Poemas is a new bilingual (Spanish and English) edition of selected poems by the American poet Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), released by Miami publisher, Sububrano Ediciones (2021) and includes seventeen esteemed contributors. Poet Richard Blanco contributes a Foreword that proffers poetry as a medium that uniquely bridges the immigrant experience across time and culture.

This Miami Book Fair conversation and poetry reading on Hyam Plutzik’s 32 Poems/32 Poemas (Suburbano Ediciones, 2021) is led by Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco and features George B. Henson (editor), as well as contributing translators Pablo Brescia, Layla Benitez-James, and Jose A. Villar-Portela, with additional commentary by Literary scholar, Edward J. Moran.

Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), born to immigrant parents, spoke only Yiddish at home and did not learn English until he attended a one-room schoolhouse in rural Connecticut. Educated at Trinity College and Yale University, he was a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Aspects of Proteus (1949), Apples from Shinar (1959), and Horatio (1961).

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Villar-Portela, José A.

José A. Villar-Portela is a poet, translator, and editor. He serves as the editor/translator of the O, Miami Poetry Festival, editor of Jai-Alai Magazine, assistant editor and head of Spanish-language acquisitions of Jai-Alai Books, and the programming director of Reading Queer.

Moran, Edward J.

Edward J. Moran is a poet, essayist, and literary biographer. He was the literary researcher for the documentary film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, directed by Oscar nominee Christine Choy and Ku-Ling Siegel; the literary advisor to the Hyam Plutzik “50/100” centennial celebrations in 2011-2012; and wrote the afterword for the bilingual collection Hyam Plutzik 32 Poems // 32 Poemas (Suburbano Ediciones).

Henson, George B.

George B. Henson is a literary translator and assistant professor of Spanish translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California. His translations include works by some of Latin America’s most important literary figures, including Cervantes Prize laureates Elena Poniatowska and Sergio Pitol, as well as works by Andrés Neuman, Miguel Barnet, Juan Villoro, Leonardo Padura, Alberto Chimal, and The Betsy Hotel’s Carlos Pintado. He is the editor of Hyam Plutzik 32 Poems // 32 Poemas (Suburbano Ediciones), a bilingual collection of Plutzik’s (1911-1962) work translated into Spanish by 14 poets/translators.

Brescia, Pablo

Pablo Brescia is a translator and the author of three collections of short stories: La derrota de lo real/The Defeat of the Real, Fuera de Lugar/Out of Place, and La apariencia de las cosas/The Appearance of Things, and a book of hybrid texts, No hay tiempo para la poesía/NoTime for Poetry.

Blanco, Richard

Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in the United States, Richard Blanco is the author of the poetry collections City of a Hundred Fires, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, and Looking for The Gulf Motel, and the memoir For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey, recounting his experience in being selected by President Barack Obama in 2012 to serve as the nation’s fifth presidential inaugural poet. He is also a contributor to Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (University of Florida Press). The collection showcases what editor Anjanette Delgado calls “literatura del desarraigo,” a Spanish literary tradition. Home in Florida features fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Blanco, Ana Menéndez, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Achy Obejas, Isvett Verde and many others. These writers – first-, second-, and third-generation immigrants to Florida from places such as Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Perú, Argentina, and Chile – reflect the diversity of Latinx experiences across the state. Together, they explore what exactly makes Florida home for those struggling between memory and presence.

Benitez-James , Layla

Layla Benitez-James is a poet, translator, and artist whose translations can be found in Waxwing and Anomaly. She currently works with the Unamuno Author Series in Madrid as its director of literary outreach. Her first collection of poetry, God Suspected My Heart Was a Geode But He Had to Make Sure, was published by Jai-Alai Books in Miami.

In Conversation: On Hyam Plutzik 32 Poems // 32 Poemas