Visual Poetry in Barcelona
Imagined City Seminar Tuesday 5 December 2006: 5.45-7.30 pm. Room 274 IGRS, Stewart House, WC1E 7HU
Visual Poetry in Barcelona
Dr Carlota Caulfield
Dr. Carlota Caulfield, Professor of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies, Mills College, California, is currently Visiting Fellow at the IGRS and Visiting Professor at UCL (autumn 2006).
Carlota Caulfield, whose work as a poet has enjoyed international success, will be speaking about Visual Poetry in Barcelona, illustrating her talk, with special references to the work of Xavier Canals, J.M. Calleja and Gustavo Vega. She will also explore women’s involvement in the creation of Visual Poetry through the work of Teresa Hereu, Montserrat Felip, Montserrat Ramoneda, Fina Miralles, Eugenia Balcells, Cuca Canals, Maria Merce Marcal and Carme Riera. She will take the audience on a rewarding journey.
Carlota Caulfield is the author of nine poetry books, written in Spanish and English, including The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of memory) and Movimientos metalicos para juguetes abandonados, which won the 2002 First Hispanoamerican Prize ‘Dulce Maria Loynaz’. She is the editor of From the Forbidden Garden. Letters from Alejandra Pizarnik (2003) and The Other Poetry of Barcelona. Spanish and Spanish-American Women Poets (2004). Her research interests include the avant-garde and interdisciplinary approaches to art and poetry. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in newspapers and journals in Latin America, Europe and the United States. From 1998 to 2002, Caulfield was the editor of CORNER, an electronic online journal dedicated to the avant-garde.
For directions see: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/contact/location.htm Admission free but please email Rosemary Lambeth on mailto:igrs@sas.ac.uk if you wish to attend
