Join us for a trio of most excellent poets and poetry translators with food & wine!
Doors 8:30pm / Readings 9pm
Poetry by Patricio FERRARI : Martin CORLESS-SMITH : Keith TUMA

Born to Piemontesi and Calabresi immigrants who settled in Argentina at the turn of the 20th century, PATRICIO FERRARI left Merlo (Buenos Aires) at the age of 16 to attend high school and play soccer in the United States as part of the Rotary Exchange Program. He holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne-Nouvelle, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Lisbon. Poems from Elsehere––his multilingual trilogy in progress––were recently featured in Cover to Cover by Jack Foley. As polyglot poet, he has translated from English (Frank Stanford, Laynie Browne), French (Alejandra Pizarnik), Hindi (Vidrohi), and Portuguese (Fernando Pessoa, António Osório). Ferrari edited two journals in the United States on Pessoa’s English writings (Tagus Press, 2015 & Gávea Brown, 2018) and published seven editions of Pessoa’s works in Europe, including the first critical edition of his Poèmes français [French Poems] (Editions de la Différence, 2014). With New Directions, he edited and translated The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik (with Forrest Gander; 2018) and The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa (with Margaret Jull-Costa; forthcoming 2020). Ferrari resides in New York City and teaches at Rutgers University, while serving as Managing Director of San Patricio Language Institute, a school in the Greater Buenos Aires his mother founded in 1971, and pursuing a collaboration with the Endangered Language Alliance, a non-profit organization focused on the linguistic diversity of urban areas throughout the world.

MC-S was born and raised in Worcestershire, England. He is the author of seven collections of poetry including The Fool and the Bee (Shearsman Books, 2019) along with Odious Horizons (Miami University Press 2019), a translation of Horace; the novel This Fatal Looking Glass (SplitLevel Texts 2015) and a forthcoming collection of essays The Poet's Tomb (Parlor Press, 2020). He lives and teaches in Boise, Idaho.

KEITH TUMA is the author of books including On Leave: A Book of Anecdotes (Salt, 2011) and a volume of selected poems, Climbing into the Orchestra (The Mute Canary, 2017). He teaches at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he edits the Miami University Press and directs the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing.

FREE / Donations for Wine & Food gratefully appreciated!