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Join us for a night of dialogue between poetry, "nomadic" identities and culture, featuring bilingual poetry readings – Spanish and English – by Gema Santamaria, the author of the newly published book of poems Transversa, and by Elzbieta Matynia, associate professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research, and Alina Peña. It will be a night of reflection on how identity and poetry travels, how the poet uses words and images to bring back those sites and people that have marked her life in the form of "portable" postcards and minimal portraits. Gema Santamaria (Managua, Nicaragua 1979) is a poet and writer. She has spent most of her life in Mexico City and is currently completing her PhD in Sociology at The New School for Social Research. She has published three books of poetry, The Skin of Poetry (2002), Antidote for a Tragic Woman (2007) and Transversa (2009) – all in Spanish. She has been selected for multiple poetry anthologies, including Novisimos, Women of Sun and Moon, Nicaraguan Women Poets and Al filo del gozo, Anthology of Erotic Poetry. She has participated in international poetry festivals in Granada, Nicaragua; San Salvador and Chiapas, Mexico. She is a member of the International Board of "Gaceta Literal" in Mexico and of the Nicaragua Association for Women Writers (ANIDE). Transversa (Mexico 2009, Limon Partido, Gaceta Literal) - Transversa is, according to the Mexican poet Maricruz Patino, a register of the nostalgic soul that latently evokes the return to home. It is the transgression of the verse in the form of a free poetic prose that simulates the intimacy of a traveling diary and. In it, the poet has materialized "a will that seeks to take risks in order to find her own voice".
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