Award Winning Poet Barbara Reyes To Read At ‘Berg
Poet Barbara Reyes will give a public reading at Muhlenberg College on Monday, April 2 at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Center for the Arts.Thursday, March 29, 2007 01:59 PM
Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. As one reviewer has written, the collection is bold and disturbing; it hurls “a bolt of implacable political anger.” The poems move among many registers, evincing “multiple fluencies.” They sound the chords of memory, history and Hollywood; they are written in Tagalog, English and Spanish; they summon Vietnam, America and the Philippines, and explore the dark histories of Catholicism, mysticism and cynicism.
Reyes is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Mills College and lives in Oakland, Calif.
This public reading is free and open to the public, and is part of Living Writers, a semester-long series of public readings. The last reading of the semester will be given by playwright Brighde Mullins on April 23.
