Saturday, February 20, 2010- 7:00pm – 10:00pm

MOCAD’s Winter 2010 Readings series curated by Barry Schwabsky begins on Saturday, March 20th w/ a bilingual poetry reading with preeminent Cuban poet, Jose Kozer reading his own works in the Spanish language and local poet, educator and activist, Marilynn Rashid reading English language translations of Kozer’s works.

The reading series is Free and open to the public. The readings begin at 7PM sharp. MOCAD’s fresh cafe will be open for service at 6PM.

JOSE KOZER, Havana, Cuba, 1940, is the son of Jewish parents that migrated to Cuba in the late twenties, father from Poland, mother from Czechoslovakia. He left Cuba in 1960, lived in New York until 1997, where he worked as a Prof. of Spanish and Latin American Literature, specializing in Poetry, at Queens College (CUNY) for 32 years. Upon retiring he moved to Spain, living in Málaga until 1999 and then moved to Hallandale, Florida, where he now resides. He has published a good number of books of poetry in Cuba, Spain, USA, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, and Chile; two books of prose (short poetical texts under the title of Mezcla para dos tiempos; and excerpts of his personal diaries – so far there are 40 handwritten volumes – under the title of Una huella destartalada). His work has been partially translated into English, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, French, German, Hebrew but alas not Japanese nor Chinese.

JOSE KOZER is a voracious, prolific writer of poems, indeed a graphomaniac, or rather a graphophile, and has as of this date written, corrected, filed away in his computer and forgotten exactly 5463 poems, some 1000 of which have been published here, and there.

Other readings in the series include;
3/18 – K. Silem Mohammad and Lara Glenum
4/01 – David-Baptiste Chirot and Wanda Phipps

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