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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Maurya Simon
[mailto:maurya.simon@ucr.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Monday, April
10, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>5:09 PM</span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Amanda J Labagnara<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Fwd: Bilingual
Celebration Event at the Ruskin Art Club: Poetry.... Mexican Consulate/ NEA....</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi Amanda,<br>
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Please forward this email to everyone. Thanks, Maurya<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>From: Ekduende@aol.com<br>
Date: </span></font>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:40:20 EDT<br>
Subject: Bilingual Celebration Event at the Ruskin Art Club: Poetry.... Mexican
Consulate/ NEA....<br>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;<br>
<br>
<b><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>The Ruskin
Art Club in collaboration with <br>
the Consulate General of </span></font></b><b><font face=Times><span
style='font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>Mexico</span></font></b><b><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'> in </span></font></b><b><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>Los Angeles</span></font></b><b><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'>cordially invite you to a poetry reading to celebrate the
publication of<br>
</span></font><b><i><u><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>**Connecting
Lines/LÃneas Conectadas</span></u></i><u> April 24, </u></b><b><u><span style='font-weight:bold'>7:30</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-weight:
bold'>** <br>
</span></u></b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'>A Two volume bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry<br>
from </span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'>Mexico</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> and the </span></font><font size=2
face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>United States</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'><br>
<br>
</span></font><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ruskin Art Club </span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>800 S Plymouth Blvd.</span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> <br>
</span></b><b><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>Free
Event /Free</span></font> Reception </b>310-669-2369/ Ekduende@aol,com<br>
<font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>1block S of Wilshire/3blks
west of Crenshaw at </span></font><font face=Times><span style='font-family:
Times'>Plymouth</span></font><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>
& 8th<br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>Special Valet Parking at the Wilshire
United </span></font></b><b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>Methodist</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;font-weight:
bold'> </span></font></b><b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>Church</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;font-weight:
bold'> $5<br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'>Lot</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> on Wilshire between </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Plymouth</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> and </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Lucerne</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> 1 block
north of the Ruskin<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>PEDRO SERRANO<br>
</span></b>Pedro Serrano<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>is an
accomplished poet, scholar, critic and translator. He is the author of
four poetry collections: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>El miedo,
Ignorancia, Tres voces </span></i>and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Turba,
</span></i>and he is well known for his excellent Spanish translations of
Shakespeare and of modern British poets. Mr. Serrano wrote the libretto
for the opera <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Las Marimbas de
l’Exil, </span></i>which toured through </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>France</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> and </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Mexico</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> to great
acclaim. He studied Spanish literature at Mexico’s </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>National</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Autonomous</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>University</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> and English
literature at the </span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Times'>University</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> of </span></font><font size=2
face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>London</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>. Mr.
Serrano currently holds a professorship at the National Autonomous University
of Mexico.<br>
<br>
</span></font><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Three Songs of the Lunatic Moon<br>
</span></i></span></b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'>Excerpt Translated by Mark Schafer<br>
<br>
<br>
Cold holds sway in the vast, unsheltered slaughterhouse of the sky,<br>
a missing, unprotected suffering,<br>
the tremendous weight of clouds and squalls,<br>
the landscape laid waste, torn to shreds,<br>
open terrain, torn to shreds.<br>
<br>
In the unsheltered fields,<br>
the dance all of gulfweed and shut-out voices,<br>
drownings and ripples from the drowning.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</span></font><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Amy Uyematsu<br>
</span></b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Times'>Amy Uyematsu is a <i><span style='font-style:italic'>sansei</span></i>
(third-generation Japanese American) poet and high school math teacher from </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Los
Angeles</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'>. Her first book of poems, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>30 Miles from J-Town</span></i>, won the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry
Prize. A second collection, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Nights of
Fire, Nights of Rain</span></i>, was published in 1998. In 2005 her third
book, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Stone Bow Prayer</span></i>, was
published.<br>
Uyematsu's poems have been published in hundreds of literary journals and
anthologies. Her work has been included in the Poetry Society of
America's Poetry in Motion, (poetry on the buses), on the Poet of the Month
Poetrynet website, and in the NEA's national recitation contest for high school
students, Poetry Outloud. <br>
<br>
</span></font><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Deliberate<br>
<br>
</span></b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Times'>So by sixteen we move in packs<br>
learn to strut and slide<br>
in deliberate lowdown rhythm<br>
talk in a syn/co/pa/ted beat<br>
because we want so bad<br>
to be cool, never to be mistaken<br>
for white, even when we leave these rowdier </span></font><font size=2
face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>L.A.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>
streets–<br>
remember how we paint our eyes<br>
like ggangsters<br>
flash our legs in nylons<br>
sassy black high heels <br>
or two inch zippered boots<br>
stack them by the door at night<br>
next to Daddy’s muddy gardening shoes.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>ELSA CROSS<br>
<br>
</span></b>Elsa Cross<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>was born in </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Mexico
City</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'> in 1946. She is the author of 20 books of poetry
including <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Jaguar</span></i>, inspired in
ancient sites and symbols of </span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Mexico</span></font><font size=2
face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Espirales</span></i>, which features selected poems
published from 1965 to 1999. Her more recent books form a trilogy: <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Los sueños (ElegÃas)</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Ultramar (Odas)</span></i>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>El vino de las cosas (Ditirambos)</span></i>.
Among other awards, she has received the Premio Nacional de PoesÃa Nacional </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Aguascalientes</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> and the
Premio Internacional de PoesÃa Jaime Sabines. Ms. Cross holds a Ph.D. in
philosophy and is a professor of Philosophy of Religion at
Mexico’s </span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>National</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Autonomous</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>University</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>.<br>
<br>
Translated by Sheena Sood<br>
</span></font><b><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times;font-weight:
bold'>The Lovers of Tlatelolco<br>
</span></font></b><b><i><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>For Teresa Franco<br>
</span></font></i></b><b><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-weight:
bold'>Excerpt<br>
<br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'>Indifferent to the shadow that covers them,<br>
the young lovers murmur<br>
or stay silent,<br>
while the night grows over the ruins,<br>
bolts down the plinths of the temples,<br>
the inscriptions.<br>
<br>
And over there, the urn<br>
with two skeletons embracing<br>
in their dusty deathbed,<br>
beneath the crystal where the flowers<br>
Of an offering are
drying.</span></font></p>
<p></x-sigsep><font size=2 face=Times><x-sigsep><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times'>Maurya Simon<br>
<br>
Professor <br>
Department of Creative Writing<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Times'>University</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> of </span></font><font size=2
face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>California</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>Riverside</span></font><font
size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Times'>900 University Avenue</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Times'>Riverside</span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Times'>, </span></font><font size=2 face=Times><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times'>CA</span></font><font size=2
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