Eighth annual Multilingual Poetry Reading to feature Swiss poet Rolf Hermann

The University of Southern Indiana World Languages and Cultures department will host the eighth annual Multilingual Poetry Reading, titled "The sea in a nut(shell)…," at 2:00 Tuesday, October 30 in Kleymeyer Hall in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center. The reading is free and open to the public.

Rolf Hermann, a published multilingual poet from Switzerland, is the guest presenter. Hermann's publications include three books of poetry: Homage to Backstroke Swimming in Chicago and Elsewhere (2007), Chronicles of a Crash-Landing (2011), and Cartography of Snow (2014). He has also published several CDs of radio plays and spoken word performances. His poems have been translated into Arabic, English, French, Lithuanian, Polish and Spanish and have been included in various literary magazines and anthologies.

For his creative work, Rolf Hermann has received recognition through a number of literary awards which include: the Cultural Encouragement Prize of the Canton of Valais (2009), Writer-in-Residence for Poetry in Tübingen (2010), the Rilke Encouragement Prize (2012), the Literature Prize of the Canton of Berne (2015) as well as a writing grant from Pro Helvetia (2015).

Hermann will read parts of his work both in German and English. Following his reading, poems will be read by students and faculty in original Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Latin, and Spanish with English translations.

The event is sponsored by the USI College of Liberal Arts. For more information, contact Dr. Manuel Apodaca Valdez at 812-228-5038 or at mdapodacav@usi.edu