Entre sillas y Estrellas: Featuring Peruvian poet Rossella di Paolo  and Chilean poet and screenwriter Malú Urriola.

Sponsored by NYU MFA Creative Writing in Spanish Program.

In Spanish / Reception to follow

Free and Open to the Public. Id required at the door.

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Bio

(Picture: Malú Arriola & Rossella di Paolo)

Malú Arriola’s work has appeared in anthologies including 16 poetas chilenos (Santiago: Ediciones Cámara Chile, 1987). She participated with other Latin American writers in the Guía del Nuevo Siglo, edited by Julio Ortega (Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1998). In 2004 she received the Premio Mejores Obras Editadas del Consejo Nacional del libro and the Premio Municpal de Poesía for the book Nada (Santiago: LOM, 2003). In 2006 she won the Premio Pablo Neruda. In 2009 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. In 2013 is invited to participate in Transversal Poetics: Workshop on Translation and Transcreation of Latin American Poetry, at Harvard University. In 2015 she inaugurated the multimedia work The light that blinds me with the photographer Paz Errázuriz at the Venice Biennale. In 2017 is invited to launch his book  Exquisite Corps in the book Fair of Zócalo, Mexico.

Rossella Di Paolo was born in Lima in 1960. She studied Literature in Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and worked as Literature teacher in various colleges.

In Lima she has published five books of poetry: _Prueba de galera_ (Antares, 1985; Paracaídas, 2017), _Continuidad de los cuadros_ (Antares, 1988), _Piel alzada_ (Colmillo Blanco, 1993), _Tablillas de San Lázaro_ (Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2001) and _La silla en el mar_ (Peisa, 2016), which won the Luces Prize of Poetry 2016, sponsored by _El Comercio_ newspaper.

_La silla en el mar_ (2016) are poems in homage to Herman Melville´s _Moby Dick_ (1851) and _Bartleby the Scrivener_ (1853). The  admiration for the motionless Bartleby inspired Di Paolo to write poems about him, but also about his opposite, Captain Ahab and his unstoppable persecution of the White Whale. The poems are also critical of the passion for constant change and movement in our contemporary life.