Bilingual poetry reading of “Luz/Light” by Juan Armando Rojas Joo

Photo courtesy of University of Puget Sound.
When:
10/01/2014 @ 6:00 pm
2014-10-01T18:00:00-07:00
2014-10-01T18:30:00-07:00
Where:
University of Puget Sound Murray Boardroom, Wheelock Student Center
1500 North Warner Street
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Office of Public Events, University of Puget Sound
Bilingual poetry reading of "Luz/Light" by Juan Armando Rojas Joo @ University of Puget Sound Murray Boardroom, Wheelock Student Center | Tacoma | Washington | United States

As a native of Ciudad Juárez, one of the most violent border towns in Mexico, Dr. Rojas Joo’s poetry offers a first-hand account of life on the border while examining the complex relationship between Mexico and the United States. His scholarly and literary work has been published in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies and he has been invited to speak at several universities both in Mexico and in the United States. In 2011, Dr. Rojas Joo spent a semester as the poet in residence at the University of Coímbra in Portugal and in 2012 he teamed up with the Spanish “cardboard” publishing house, Editorial Ultramarina Cartonera & Digital to publish a bilingual edition of his “trans-border” poems, titled Luz/Light, which will be presented.

Residency sponsored by Catharine Gould Chism Fund for the Humanities and the Arts, Hispanic Studies, Dolliver Seminar Funds, Latin American Studies, and Latino/a Studies.