Readings around

Alerts for the forthcoming days:
1. A new reading by Rita María Martínez, author of Jane-in-the-Box:

Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida,
Saturday, February 13, at 11:00 a.m.

Two years ago, anthology editor Francisco Aragón presented the work of three poets to highlight the publication of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. He returns to share his own work and will be joined by Florida-based poets Rita Maria Martinez and Emma Trelles, who in the past year have published their first books of poetry.

Her poetry chapbook received a mention in an article on Latina Voices talking about a recent reading:

As the featured poet, Martínez was the last poet to read. Her deliberate voice and center-parted long dark hair gave her demeanor a sense of austerity that contrasted playfully with her poetry. She read mostly from her book “Jane-in-the-Box,” a revisionist romp through the lives and characters of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre.” In these poems she takes the novel and illuminates its continued relatability by using contemporary pop references and sexually charged allusions. “Cross-Dressing,” meditates on pens, penises, and Freud through Brontë’s use of a male pseudonym Currer Bell. “Jane Eyre: Heiress, Avon Lady, Plastic Surgery Junkie” got her the most applause and laughter from the audience for her outrageousness. (Jenny Patiño)

2. Another reading, but now in Vienna. Hilde Schmölzer will read from her book: Fauenliebe. Berühmte weibliche Liebespaare der Geschichte (check more information on previous posts):

Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Literatur (Vienna, Austria)
11. 02. 2010, 19:00

Mit Doppelbiographien von Bettine Brentano & Karoline von Günderrode, George Sand & Marie Dorval, Charlotte Bronté & Ellen Nussey, Auguste Fickert & Ida Baumann, Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas, Anna Freud & Dorothy Burlingham: Die Biographien erzählen über Glück und Unglück, Liebe. Begehren und Streit, über Konflikte, gegenseitigen Beistand, ein gemeinsames Leben und die jeweiligen historischen Zusammenhänge. Die Autorin hat ein kulturgeschichtliches Buch über oft verdrängte Frauenbeziehungen geschrieben. (Die Standard) (Google translation)

3. And in Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain, a talk about Literary Female Characters, including Jane Eyre:

12/ 26 February.
11:00 horas, salón de actos del Centro Cívico El Molino.

Nuevo ciclo de conferencias, a cargo de la especialista Úrsula Martí. “Personajes Literarios femeninos”: Dulcinea, Doña Urraca, Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, Escarlata O´Hara, Anais-Nin, Lisbeth Salander…

Categories: Talks