School of English - AUTh

On Tuesday, 20th November 2012, American Book Award Winner poet Tino Villanueva (Boston University) will read from his work.  

The poetry reading will take place in Room 308 (School of English Library, New Philosophy Building) at 7:15 pm.

Below you can find the speaker’s short bio.

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Short Bio

TINO VILLANUEVA  is the author of six books of poetry, among them Shaking Off the Dark (1984);   Crónica de mis años peores (1987) / Chronicle of My Worst Years (1994);  Scene from the Movie GIANT (1993), which won a 1994 American Book Award;  and  Primera causa / First Cause (1999), a chapbook on memory and writing.  Villanueva is fully bilingual and has been anthologized in An Ear to the Ground: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 1989), and Poetas sin fronteras (Madrid:  Editorial Verbum, 2000).    He has taught creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin, The College of William & Mary, and most recently at Bowdoin College.  His art work has appeared on the covers and pages of national and international journals, such as Nexos, Green Mountains Review, TriQuarterly, and Parnassus. Six of his poems have been anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011).  He teaches in the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University.

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