The Danny’s Reading Series
Wednesday, October 14th
7:30PM
Poetry by Jen Hofer & Patrick Durgin
Jen Hofer’s recent publications include The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008), sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008), and lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007). Her forthcoming books are from the valley of death (Ponzipo), Laws (Dusie Books), one (Palm Press), and a translation of Guatemalan poet Alan Mills’ Síncopes (Piedra Santa). She currently teaches at Goddard College, and in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts.
For MAKE issue 7, Jen interviewed novelist and translator Forrest Gander and Mexican poet Pura López-Colomé.
Patrick Durgin is a poet-critic whose most recent publications include The Route, a collaboration with Jen Hofer (Atelos, 2008), and contributions to Contemporary Women’s Writing, Denver Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Literature, Mark(s)zine, textsound.org and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics. New poems are forthcoming in the “A Tonalist” feature of the literary journal Aufgabe (edited by Laura Moriarty), and a new essay on the work of Lyn Hejinian is slated from Aerial: Contemporary Poetics as Critical Theory. Durgin teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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