The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center is pleased to present poets
Renato Rosaldo
Javier Huerta
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 7:30 pm
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The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center is pleased to present poets
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 7:30 pm |
 One
of the leading cultural anthropologists in the world today, Renato Rosaldo
started writing poetry in English and Spanish while recovering from a stroke
in 1996. His first book of poetry, Prayer to Spider Woman/ Rezo a la
mujer araña, received an American Book Award (2004). Individual poems
have won the El Andar poetry contest (2000) and the Many Mountains Moving
poetry contest (2005). He is currently a Professor of Anthropology at New
York University and was previously a Lucie Stern Professor in the Social
Sciences at Stanford University. The author of Culture and Truth: The
Remaking of Social Analysis and Ilongot Headhunting: 1883-1974: A
Study in Society and History, Rosaldo discovered many “bridges” between
writing anthropology and poetry, and he coined a term – “anthropoeta” –
to describe the way he can move back and forth between the two modes of
writing.
The reading will include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
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Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants 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 the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government. |
Javier
O. Huerta’s poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including
Red, White, and Blues (University of Iowa Press, 2004), and journals
such as Punto de Partida (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
His debut collection Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico,
2007) received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine.
Huerta is a contributing editor at Latino Poetry Review. A native
of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, he currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area,
where he is working on his doctorate in English at the University of California,
Berkeley.