USI to host poet Pedro Larrea for Multilingual Poetry Reading

The University of Southern Indiana Department of World Languages and Cultures will host poet Pedro Larrea for its Multilingual Poetry Reading event at 2 p.m. Thursday, October 20 in Kleymeyer Hall located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center on the USI campus. The reading is free and open to the public.

Larrea is the author of three poetry collections: La orilla libre,  La tribu y la llama and Manuscrito del hechicero. He has been invited to read in distinguished venues such as the Granada International Poetry Festival, New York University's King Juan Carlos I Center, the University of Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference and the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He has published poems in the leading journal of Spanish letters, Revista de Occidente, as well as in other prestigious newspapers and magazines, including ABCD, Círculo de Poesía and Cuadernos de Valverde. As an essayist, he has published the book Federico García Lorca en Buenos Aires and scholarly articles on Spanish and Latin American literature from all periods. Larrea serves as chief editor for the international academic journal Poéticas and is also an active translator of contemporary American poetry into Spanish.

Larrea received his doctorate in Spanish literature from the University of Virginia, having previously graduated in literary theory and comparative literature from the Complutense University of Madrid. As a member of the University of Virginia faculty, he taught Spanish language, culture and literature, directed the Spanish Bolívar House, and took part, as a teacher and student advisor, in various study abroad programs, including UVA in Valencia and Semester at Sea. At the same institution, he was the recipient of the 2010 Teaching Award from the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese for his work in the classroom and dedication to his students. Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia.

The event is sponsored by the USI College of Liberal Arts, USI Society for Arts and Humanities and the Multicultural Center. 

For more information, contact Dr. Manuel Apodaca Valdez at 812-228-5038 or at mdapodacav@usi.edu.