03/18/2021
FOREST CITY, IOWA, March. 18, 2021 鈥撎Waldorf University to host poet and translator Laura Cesarco Eglin on Wednesday, April 7. The event is a part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the Waldorf University English Department and Creative Writing Department. The reading is free and open to the public from 6-7 p.m. in the Odvin Hagen Recital Hall located at 106 S. Sixth St. Forest City, Iowa. Masks and social distancing will be required.
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Laura Cesarco Eglin is a poet and translator. She is the author of three collections of poetry: 鈥淐alling Water by Its Name鈥, translated by Scott Spanbauer (Mouthfeel Press, 2016), 鈥淪astrer铆a鈥 (Yaugur煤, 2011), and 鈥淩eborn in Ink鈥, translated by Catherine Jagoe and Jesse Lee Kercheval (The Word Works, 2019). She has also published three chapbooks: 鈥淟ife鈥, 鈥淥ne Not Attached to Conditionals鈥 (Thirty West Publishing House, 2020), 鈥淥ccasions to Call Miracles Appropriate鈥 (The Lune, 2015), and 鈥淭ailor Shop: Threads鈥, co-translated with Teresa Williams (Finishing Line Press, 2013). Her poems, as well as her translations (from the Spanish, Portuguese, Portu帽ol, and Galician), have appeared in a variety of journals, including Asymptote, Modern Poetry in Translation, Eleven Eleven, Puerto del Sol, Copper Nickel, Spoon River Poetry Review, Arsenic Lobster, International Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, They New Yorker, Columbia Poetry Review, Blood Orange Review, Timber, Pretty Owl Poetry, Pilgrimage, Peri贸dico de Poes铆a, and more. Cesarco Eglin is the translator of 鈥淥f Death. Minimal Odes鈥 by the Brazilian author Hilda Hilst (co鈥m鈥ress), winner of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry and co-translated from the 鈥淧ortu帽ol of Fabi谩n Severo鈥檚 Night in the North鈥 (Eulalia Books, 2020). She is the co-founding editor and publisher of Veliz Books.
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