LETRAS LATINAS an Evening of Poetry and Conversation

The Arts Club of Washington

& Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies*

present

an evening of poetry and conversation

featuring

Eduardo C. Corral

&

Carmen Calatayud

Thursday, January 25, 2024

7:00 PM

Eduardo Corral and Carmen Calatayud will read poetry from their most recent books and then engage in a discussion featuring audience questions as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Letras Latinas. A reception and book signing will follow.  

*Letras Latinas is the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. This event will launch Letras Latinas’ year-long 20^th anniversary celebration and is made possible, in part, thanks to an Equity in Verse grant from the Poetry Foundation.

     There are walls everywhere.

     Your work is to knock them down with your eyes.

     Then go towards tenderness.

          Carmen Calatayud

     the moon is my library

     there's a glacier

     inside a grain of salt

          Eduardo C. Corral

Eduardo C. Corral is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine, published by Graywolf Press, and Slow Lightning, which won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He's the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University and will join Washington University's MFA program in the fall.

Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book In the Company of Spirits was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Her poetry has recently appeared in Rogue Agent and Tahoma Literary Journal, and was nominated for a 2023 Best of the Net Award. Carmen is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow. Her book This Tangled Body will be published by FlowerSong Press in collaboration with Letras Latinas in the Spring of 2024.