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Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents a reading with
| Demetria Martinez | |
| A Celebration of Curbstone Press | |
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| Thursday, July 21, 2005, 7:30 pm | |
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For thirty years now, Curbstone Press, based in Willimantic, CT, has published creative literature that promotes human rights and inter-cultural understanding and has overseen extensive educational outreach. It now publishes 8 to 10 books a year in all genres and with some emphasis on writing from Latin America and from Latino communities in the U.S. Join this celebration with Curbstone’s visionary founders and co-directors, Alexander Taylor and Judith Doyle, other board members, and one of Curbstone’s fine authors, Marnie Mueller (My Mother’s Island).
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale. | |
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The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals. |
Demetria
Martinez is the author of the widely-translated Mother Tongue (Ballantine),
winner of a Western States Book Award for Fiction, and two books of poetry, Breathing
Between the Lines and The Devil’s Workshop (both University of Arizona
Press).
Her collected essays, Confessions of a Berlitz Tape Chicana: Collected Columns,
will be out in the fall (University of Oklahoma Press). She was born and lives
in Albuquerque, NM, she’s a Princeton grad, and she’s active with Enlace Comunitario,
an immigrants’ rights group that serves Spanish-speaking victims of domestic violence.
She is also an enthusiastic Curbstone board member.