BRATTLEBORO — Amherst College professor of Latin Culture Ilan Stavans will read the work of influential Latino poets in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library on April 4.
His talk, “An Evening of Latin American Poetry,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays series and takes place at 7 p.m.
Stavans, a professor of Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst College, will read and discuss work by Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and others whose words have served as mechanisms of resistance against oppression.
Stavans is editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology. He is also the author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language.
The Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October through May, featuring speakers of national and regional renown.
The Brattleboro 2011-2012 First Wednesdays season concludes with “One Nation under Contract” with Middlebury College professor Allison Stanger on May 2.
For more information, contact Brooks Memorial Library at 802-254-5290 or contact the Vermont Humanities Council at 802-262-2626 or info@vermonthumanities.org, or visit www.vermonthumanities.org.