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10/22/01

BILINGUAL POETRY READING SCHEDULED AT SLU

CANTON - Readings of new Chilean poetry, in the original Spanish 
and in translation to English, will be given at St. Lawrence University 
on Tuesday, October 30, in Herring-Cole, at 8 p.m. The event is 
open to the public, free of charge.
	Reading will be two Chilean poets, Teresa Calderón and Tomás 
Harris. Calderón is the author of Causas perdidas (1984), Género 
femenino (1989), Imágenes rotas (1995), No me arrepiento de nada (1999) 
and Aplausos para la memoria (1999). She is the recipient of the 1992 
Pablo Neruda Prize and served on the jury for the Casa de las Américas 
Prize in 2000. She works in the School of Journalism at the University 
of Chile and directs poetry workshops in Santiago. Harris has published 
various books of poems, including Cipango (1992, Premio Municipal de 
Poesía), and Los 7 náufragos, as well as the short-story collection 
Historia personal del miedo. He received the 1996 Casa de las Américas 
prize for his Crónicas maravillosas. His most recent poetry collection 
is Itaca (2001). He works at Chile's National Library in Santiago. 
	Also reading will be Daniel Shapiro, the translator of Harris' 
Cipango, and author of the poetry manuscripts The Red Handkerchief and 
Child with a Swan's Wings. He is the director of literature and managing 
editor of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts at the Americas 
Society in New York. St. Lawrence students Justin Bland, Sylvia Mello 
and Tia Rabine will read the translations of poetry by Calderón that they 
prepared in a workshop with Professor of Modern Languages and 
Literatures Steven White. 

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