The Dikeou Collection presents the fourteenth installment of the Dikeou Literary Series on Saturday, November 7, at 7:00pm, which will take place at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave, Denver CO 80203. The theme for the evening’s readings is “A Night of Translation.” The featured readers for the evening include Alexis Almeida, Mildred Barya and Wayne Miller. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
Alexis Almeida will be discussing her project to compile an anthology of Argentine female poets while living in Buenos Aires, and will present a recent collaboration with poet Florencia Walfisch. Almeida lives in Denver. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in TYPO, Vinyl Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Matter Monthly, Oversound, and elsewhere. Her translation of Florencia Castellano’s Propiedades vigiladas is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. She is an assistant editor at Asymptote, and was recently awarded a Fulbright grant to Argentina and will be traveling to Buenos Aires in 2016.
Mildred Barya will read from the Trickster Tales of Ishe-Katabaazi, literally meaning Father of Katabaazi, which she has translated from Runyankole-Rukiga, one of the languages spoken in Uganda. Barya is a writer from Uganda, doing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Denver, Colorado. She is currently investigating how we read and interpret literary narratives across cultures and languages. She blogs at: http://mildredbarya.com/, is a board member of African Writers Trust (AWT) as well as the website digital writing editor. She has published three poetry collections: Give Me Room to Move My Feet, 2009, The Price of Memory after the Tsunami, 2006, and Men Love Chocolates But They Don’t Say, 2002. Her short stories are in anthologies and journals such as Northeast Review, Per Contra, African Love Stories Anthology, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, Dreams, Miracles & Jazz Anthology, and Words From A Granary: Uganda Women Writers Anthology, among others.
Wayne Miller will be reading poems from his translation of Moikom Zeqo’s Zodiac and talking about the translation process. Miller is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Post-(Milkweed, 2016), which is forthcoming, and The City, Our City (2011), which was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award and the Rilke Prize. He has also co-translated two books by the Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo-most recently Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015)-and co-edited three books, including Literary Publishing in the 21st Century (Milkweed, 2016; forthcoming) and New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). Wayne teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel.
The Dikeou Literary Series is currently organized by Joe Lennon and Adam Fagin. Joe Lennon has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver, and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. His recent poems and curations have appeared or are forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, Incessant Pipe, and Denver Quarterly, and he is a contributor to the Denver Poetry Map (www.denverpoetrymap.org). He’s been to every US state except Alaska. Adam Fagin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Web Conjunctions, Volt, and other journals. He’s the author of a chapbook, T’s Alphabet, and one forthcoming, THE SKY IS A HOWLING WILDERNESS BUT IT CAN’T HOWL WITH HEAVEN.