Opening of La Frontera: Artists Along the U.S.-Mexican Border.
PEN World Voices Festival: The Literary Mews
Global bazaar meets county fair. Discover a world of literature, performances, and music in NYU’s beautiful Washington Mews and its International Houses and Institutes.
All events are free and open to the public. For detailed information visit: as.nyu.edu/page/literarymews
Opening of La Frontera: Artists Along the U.S.-Mexican Border.
Performances on the Mews by Édgar Javier Ulloa, ERRO Grupo, Hector Canonge, Isaque Ribeiro, Jarana Beat, Polina Porras.
A poetry master class with Puerto Rican poet and PEN/Beyond Margins Award winner Willie Perdomo.
The Language of War, with poet and activist Jennif(f)er Tamayo (YOU DA ONE, 2014) and poet Solmaz Sharif (LOOK, Graywolf Press, 2016).
Literary Conversations (Authors to be announced)
Poetry Reading and Conversation with award-winning Mexican novelist Cristina Rivera-Garza and Irene Gruss.
CantoMundo—the national organization that cultivates a community of Latina/o poets—presents a reading by David Campos, Willie Perdomo and Natalie Scenters-Zapico.
Conversation and Performance (Authors to be announced)
Reading and Conversation with Deutsches Haus’s writer-in residence, Monique Schwitter, winner of the 2015 Swiss Book Prize.
Writers Glenn Patterson of Northern Ireland and Juan Villoro of Mexico talk about the complexity of working in geographic areas known for violence.
Closing panel and party
A reading by contributors to the NYU Creative Writing Program’s nationally distributed literary journal, Washington Square Review, featuring acclaimed fiction writer Amy Hempel and poet Tommy Pico