Liliana Valenzuela discusses her debut poetry collection, Codex of Love: Bendita Ternura, with John Olivares Espinoza. [link id=’2115648′ text=’Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show’] is a monthly interview with a Latinx poet who has recently published their first book. The debut poets themselves have selected their interlocutors.
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Liliana Valenzuela is the author of Codex of Love: Bendita ternura (FlowerSong Press, 2020), and other works. She is also the acclaimed Spanish language translator of works by Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, and many other writers. She has been awarded residencies and grants from the Vermont Studio Center, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and more recently, The Tasajillo Residency. She is a contributing podcaster at Hablemos, Escritoras, a platform for contemporary women writers and translators of the Spanish-speaking world. A CantoMundo and Macondo fellow, she lives and works in Austin, Texas. Details at www.LilianaValenzuela.com and https://www.facebook.com/LiliValenzuelaAuthor
John Olivares Espinoza is the author of the poetry collection The Date Fruit Elegies (Bilingual Review Press, 2008), a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. John has been a recipient of a writing grant from The Elizabeth George Foundation, a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, and a residency at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. His poems have appeared in Alta, The American Poetry Review, The Berkeley Poetry Review, New Letters, Quarterly West and ZYZZYVA. A group of his poems will be published in both English and Spanish in the anthology, Xóchitl In Cuícatl (Polibea Press, 2021) in Madrid, Spain, with translations by Liliana Valenzuela.
Curated Conversation(s) is a collaboration between The Writer’s Center, Duende District, Poet Lore, and Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. This project is funded by the Poetry Foundation and the generosity of individual donors.