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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Cattle of the Lord Thursday, April 12, 2018 Alice Branco's powerful book Cattle of the Lord won the prestigious Spiral Maior Poetry award from Galicia (for best book of poetry in Portuguese, Galician, or Spanish, for the year 2009). The book appeared in a bilingual edition by Milkweed Editions in this country last spring. Collections of Rosa Alice Branco's poetry have appeared in Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Quebec, Tunisia, Corsica, Venezuela, Brazil, and elsewhere. Here in the USA her poetry has appeared in forty magazines to date, including The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, The Literary Review and Prairie Schooner. Her translator, Alexis Levitin, has published over thirty books of translation of Portuguese poetry and prose and is a SUNY Distinguished Professor. His works include Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm (short prose) and Eugénio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words (poetry), both published by New Directions. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the Witter Bynner Foundation, the Gulbenkian Foundation, and Columbia University’s Translation Center, which awarded him the Fernando Pessoa Prize. Time: 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema Sponsor: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Division of Languages and Literature; Experimental Humanities Program Contact: Peter Filkins. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7171 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/writtenarts/events/