TITLE: Frontera Sin Frontera
SPEAKER: Jeannette Clariond, Monica de la Torre, Rafael Perez-Torres, Pedro Serrano, Luis Alberto Ambroggio
EVENT DATE: 10/04/2011
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes
TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window)
DESCRIPTION:
A panel of experts discusses the poetry traditions of the United States and Mexico and the literary exchanges between the two countries, shedding light on the historical, political and cultural heritages of both nations.
Speaker Biography: Jeannette Clariond is co-editor (with Harold Bloom) of a forthcoming anthology of American poets.
Speaker Biography: Monica de la Torre is co-editor of "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry."
Speaker Biography: Rafael Perez-Torres is author of "Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins" and co-editor of "The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan 1970-2000."
Speaker Biography: Pedro Serrano is a Mexican poet.
Speaker Biography: Luis Alberto Ambroggio is a poet and member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola (North American Academy of the Spanish Language).
