Workshop Series Fall 2019 Conversations about teaching and learning in a networked world Conversations about teaching and learning in a networked world
- The Workshop Series features emerging and established writers from the Spanish speaking world.
- It constitutes an aesthetic manifesto in progress
- All events are free and open to the community
For registration and materials: agendauh.ece@gmail.com
09.30// Jennifer Scappettone
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Science Building 101
10.24// Pablo Calvi - Workshop
10:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
Topic: Collaboration vs. Extraction: Setting the New Boundaries of Literary Journalism
in Latin America
About Pablo Calvi
Pablo Calvi is the author of Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). An associate of Stony Brook University, and
the associate director for Latin America at the Marie Colvin Center for International
Reporting. His long-form work appeared in The Believer, Guernica Magazine, and El Mercurio among others.
11.04// Raquel Salas Rivera - Workshop
4:00pm-5:30pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Science Building 101
About Raquel Salas Rivera
Raquel Salas Rivera (Mayaguez, 1985) is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and literary
critic. In 2018, they were named the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia for a two-year
term. The following year they became the inaugural recipient of the Laureate Fellowship
from the Academi of American Poets and won the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico's
Festival de la Palabra. Their third book, lo terciario/ the tertiary (2nd ed., Noemi
Press, 2019), was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda
Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.
11.08// Raquel Salas Rivera - Reading
4:00pm-5:30pm
Location: InPrint Houston
1520 W Maint St, Houston, TX 77006
About Raquel Salas Rivera
Raquel Salas Rivera (Mayaguez, 1985) is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and literary
critic. In 2018, they were named the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia for a two-year
term. The following year they became the inaugural recipient of the Laureate Fellowship
from the Academi of American Poets and won the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico's
Festival de la Palabra. Their third book, lo terciario/ the tertiary (2nd ed., Noemi
Press, 2019), was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda
Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.
11.11// Veronica Gerber Bicecci
2:30pm-5:30pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Science Building 101