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An Evening With Four Latin American Poets

The Red Poppy Art House is delighted to bring you an evening of poetry from Roger Santivañez, José Antonio Galloso, Arturo Dávila and Adrián Arias on Thursday, August 14th, 2014.

ROGER SANTIVAÑEZ is a Peruvian poet of the 80s generation. He studied literature at the University of San Marcos in Lima and received his Ph.D. in Latin American Poetry from Temple University, where he is currently a professor. With Mariela Dreyfus, he founded the underground neo Avant-Gard Movement called Kloaka (The Sewer). He belongs to the Latin American Neo-baroque Poetry Movement. His last book ‘Virtu’ was published in 2013 in Mexico, Guayaquil, Lima and Madrid.

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JOSÉ ANTONIO GALLOSO was born in Lima, Peru in 1972. His collection of poems named “Si huyes hacia adentro” received an honorary distinction in the national contest: Peruvian Youth Poet in 1995. He has published the novels “Tres días para Mateo,” “El map viaje,” and “Adiós al barrio. He has also published the collection of short stories “Lima Mala,” and the visual poetry book “Recortes de la memoria o el libro de la sombra” in collaboration with the Chilean artist Franz “Pescador” Fischer. His work has been included in several anthologies such as “El cuento peruano 2001-2010” and he has been living in the Bay Area since 2002.

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ARTURO DÁVILA was born in Mexico City. He directs the Department of Modern Languages at Laney College in Oakland and has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the Chicano Program in UC Berkeley. He teaches Spanish, film, and literature, specializing in the Conquest of Mexico (16th c.) and Latin America and Chicana contemporary literature. He is poet laureate in Spain and Mexico where he has won numerous prizes including the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 1995 and the Juan Ramón Jiménez Prize in 2003 He published “Alfonso Reyes entre nosotros,” a book of scholarly essays on the Mexican writer. At present he is working on the Aztec pre-Hispanic Codices and compiling a book on Latin American poets living in the US.

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ADRIÁN ARIAS, born in 1961, is an American-Peruvian prize-winning poet, visual artist and curator. He works with words and sounds with his body as an installation-poem. His poetry was exhibited in events such as the Stern Grove festival in 2010 in a music concert with Meklit Hadero, the Struga Poetry Nights in Macedonia in 2009 and at the de Young Museum in San Francisco as part of a visual installation-performance. Also he creates Video-poems, such as “Frida in the mirror,” an official selection of the San Francisco International Film Festival.

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Admission: $7-10. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.