• 24 February 2011: Poetry reading by Urayoán Noel. ISU University Galleries, 8:30 pm. Free. More information here.
  
• 23 February 2011, noon: Critical talk by Dr. Urayoán Noel: “Can There Be a 'Non-circulating' Hemispheric Poetics? (Or, 6,000 Miles of Poems).” Free. More information here.
  
• 1 October 2010: Reading to celebrate the 2009 and 2010 issues of Mandorla. 7:30 pm at the University Galleries, Illinois State University. Features Chicago writer Achy Obejas, as well as ISU's Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Gabriel Gudding, Steve Halle, Duriel Harris, Juliet Lynd, James Pancrazio and others.  Some will read from their own work; others will help us represent writers too far away to join us. A Latino Heritage Month event, co-sponsored by the program for Latin American and US Latino/a studies.
  
• 30 March 2010: Documentary screening. "El corno emplumado: A Story of the Sixties,"
  a film about a magazine from the 1960s called El corno emplumado / The Plumed Horn. See
  below for details.
  
• Go to page for Mandorla reading Friday 2/13/09: a public and off-site event coinciding with AWP 2009, Chicago
  
• Go to pages for Pierre Bourdieu Memorial Reading Series, ISU
  
• See below: Translation Colloquia & International Seminars, ISU
  
• See below: Latino Heritage Month Activities, ISU

DOCUMENTARY: "EL CORNO EMPLUMADO, A STORY OF THE SIXTIES"

30 March 2010 at 5:30 pm.
ISU, Stevenson Hall, Room 401.

Published from 1962 to 1969, El corno emplumado / The Plumed Horn was a magazine founded in Mexico by Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragón.  It published numerous now-famous poets from many different countries, in their original languages and/or translation. The documentary includes interviews with Jerome Rothenberg, Anselm Hollo, Cecilia Vicuña and many others.  Of interest for people who would like to learn more about publishing history, creative writing, translation, Latin American literature, US literature, the '60s, or documentaries.

For more information, check out the remarks at these poets' blogs.

Commentary by Heriberto Yépez, tr. Guillermo Parra: Click here. "40 years after its disappearance we have to acknowledge the following: Randall and Mondragón were visionary editors."

Commentary by Jerome Rothenberg for screening at NYU, February 2009: Click here. "What Corno did, what it brought together were the two Americas – not only an international perspective but a truly collaborative venture across two or more languages and cultures. The larger world view (weltliteratur as Goethe had it long ago) was implicit in this – in practice here more than in theory – and something more than literature in fact: a youthful call on the revolutionary poets, the shape shifters of the world – to unite!"

TRANSLATION COLLOQUIA & INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS, ISU

Daniel Borzutzky will present "Changing Avant-Gardes:  Chilean Literature in Translation"
Co-Sponsored by ISU's International Seminar Series and Mandorla
A Latino Heritage Month Event
1 October 2008

Translation as Creative Writing 1
26 March 2008

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LATINO HERITAGE MONTH ACTIVITIES at ISU, co-sponsored by Mandorla

2010

1 Oct: reading to celebrate 2009 and 2010 issues of Mandorla, with Chicago writer Achy Obejas.

2008

18 Sept.: Keynote lecture by Dr. Suzanne Oboler: " “Latino, Hispanic . . . The Consequences of Ethnic Labels in Contemporary U.S. Society.” 7pm in the Old Main Room at the Bone Student Center.

1 Oct.: "Changing Avant-Gardes: Chilean Literature in Translation." A presentation by Daniel Borzutzky for the International Studies Seminar Series. For more information, click here.

2007

26 Sept.: Reading of new creative works by Achy Obejas, University Galleries 27 Sept.: Keynote lecture by Achy Obejas: "Dislocation and Identity"

Click to go to website for ISU's Latin American and U.S. Latino/a Studies Program

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