Curator: Marta López Luaces

A reading of poems in English and Spanish.

JoAnne McFarland is a poet, painter, and curator from Brooklyn. She is the former Exhibitions Director of A.I.R. Gallery and the founder of Artpoetica, a project space in Gowanus Brooklyn that links literary and visual expression. Her latest poetry collection, Identifying the Body, was published in 2018 by The Word Works. Her artwork is part of many public and private collections, including the Library of Congress and the Columbus Museum of Art. In her practice McFarland treats violence and creativity as diametrically opposed: each act of making thwarts violence’s aim to destroy.

Amy Lemmon is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Miracles (C&R Press, 2019). Her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. Amy is Professor and Chairperson of English and Communication Studies at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, where she teaches writing and creativity studies classes, and co-editor (with Sarah Freligh) of The CDC Poetry Project.

Almudena Vidorreta (Spain, 1986) is the author of Tintación (2007), Algunos hombres insaciables (awarded by the Poetry Prize “Delegación del Gobierno en Aragón”, 2009), Lengua de mapa (XXII Poetry Prize “Universidad de Zaragoza”, 2010), Días animales (2013) and Nueva York sin querer (La Bella Varsovia, 2017). She is Vissiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College. In 2014, she earned her PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) with a dissertation on Early Modern Poetry. She is currently working on a second PhD in Latin American Literature at the City University of New York, where she teaches since 2013.