Latino Poetry with Rigoberto Gonzalez in conversation with Jeremy Paden

Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2.

Rigoberto González

Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology

Rigoberto González is distinguished professor of English at Rutgers University in Newark, where he is director of the MFA program in creative writing. He edited, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, a landmark Latinx poetry collection including more than 180 poets, spanning from the 17th century to today, and presenting poems written in Spanish in the original and in English translation.

Jeremy Dae Paden was born in Milan, Italy and raised in Central America and the Caribbean. He received his PhD in Latin American literature at Emory University and is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Transylvania University and also on faculty in Spalding’s low-residency MFA, where he teaches literary translation. He is the author of two chapbooks: Broken Tulips (Accents Press, 2013) and Delicate Matters (Winged City Press, 2016). The latter collection is comprised of translations. His poems and translations have appeared in such journals as Adirondack Review, Asymptote Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, California Quarterly, Cortland Review, Drunken Boat, Hampden-Sydney Review, Louisville Review, Rattle, and Words without Borders, to name a few. He is a member of the Affrilachian Poets and resides in Lexington, Kentucky.