Friday, September 21, 2012
Plaster Student Union, Room 313
6:00pm
Program Activities:
- Poetry Reading
- Q&A Session
- Book Signing Reception
A Trilingual Reading from Conjuro: In Spanish, English and Nahuatl (Language of the Aztecs) Exploring Linguistic Diversity among Latinos.
Xanath Caraza is a traveler, educator, poet and short story writer. Originally from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, she has lived in Vermont and Kansas City. She has an M.A. in Romance Languages. She lectures in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her full-length book of Poetry Conjuro (2012) is from Mammoth Publications and her chapbook Corazon Pintado: Ekphrastic Poems (2012) is from TL Press. She won the 2003 Ediciones Nuevo Espacio international short story contest in Spanish and was a 2008 finalist for the first international John Barry Award. Caraza is an advisory circle member of the Con Tinta literary orgainzation and a former board member of the Latino Writers Collective in Kansas City. She has taught in Mexico, Brazil, China, Spain and the U.S. Caraza is currently working on a collection of ekphrastic poems with the artist Juan Chawuk. Additionally, she is working on another short story collection, Lo quie trae la marea/What the Tide Brings In forthcoming from Mouthfeel Press is 2013. Her Day of the Dead artwork has been exhibited at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.