{"id":3880,"date":"2025-03-25T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:47:19","slug":"join-us-for-reading-with-albuquerque-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2025\/03\/25\/join-us-for-reading-with-albuquerque-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Us for Reading with Albuquerque Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Department of English and Creative Writing are co-sponsoring April for the Word, a cultural event run by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese since 2016 and in partnership with the Poetry Meeting of Angels in The Land of Enchantment since 2023. This year marks the third annual Poetry Meeting and features Mary Oishi, an Albuquerque Poet Laureate who will read from some of her work on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 2pm in the Frank Waters Room in Zimmerman<\/strong> Library<\/strong>. H\u00e9ctor Contreras L\u00f3pez will also read Oishi\u2019s work in translation. The event is bilingual, free and open to the public, with a reception to follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oishi is a celebrated poet, one of twelve poets from the United States selected for 12 Poetas: Antologia De Nuevos Poetas Estadounidenses (2017), a project of the Mexican Ministry of Culture. The daughter of an American soldier and Japanese mother, Oishi navigates the borders of race, nation, and culture, bridging the differences that divide even her own family ancestry. In the 2011 West End Press collection, Spirit Birds They Told Me, Oishi dedicates the small collection to many women, including her mother, \u201cChizu \u2018One Thousand Cranes\u2019 Oishi\u201d and daughter, \u201cAja \u2018One Who Cannot Be Conquered\u2019 Oishi.\u201d In Rock Paper Scissors (2018), Oishi and her daughter compose a two-part collection of mother-daughter poems, opening with a quote from the authors\u2019 mother and grandmother, \u201cOishi means \u2018big rock,\u2019 \/ Like the Rock of Gibraltar,\u201d chiseling further the intergenerational links of Oishi\u2019s poesy. In 2020, Oishi was named Albuquerque Poet Laureate (2020-2022) and hosted a series of zoom conversations with poets in conjunction with the city\u2019s public libraries. Oishi\u2019s One Albuquerque, One Hundred Poets: Poets in the Libraries Anthology, published by the ABQ Library Foundation, won the best in Poetry Anthology for the 2023 New Mexico-Arizona Books Awards. Oishi is also the author of the most recent Sidewalk Cruiseship (2024), published by UNM Press, and creator of the blog \u201cA Poet\u2019s Kiss,\u201d https:\/\/poetoishi.blogspot.com\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April for the Word is a cultural event run by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese since 2016 and in 2023 was joined by the Poetry Meeting of Angels in The Land of Enchantment. The activities that make up this event include book presentations, scholarly talks, poetry recitals, classroom demonstrations, and much more, including student translation projects. One of the main activities characterizing April for the Word since its inception is the bilingual reading of a New Mexican poet or one related to New Mexico. Thanks to the Ricardo Aguilar Melantzon Translation Workshop, directed by H\u00e9ctor Contreras L\u00f3pez, students enrolled in a 300-level Spanish course initially translate the poetry. Contreras L\u00f3pez oversees the translation and keeps in communication with the author to maintain a steady collaboration between students and author, and to ensure a genuine translation of the original poetry. Contreras L\u00f3pez will read some of Oishi\u2019s poetry in translation following her presentation and poetry reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join us for \u201cSongs for a City Held in Common \/ Canci\u00f3nes para una ciudad en com\u00fan,\u201d a bilingual poetry reading in the Frank Waters Reading Room on Thursday, April 3 @2pm. For more information or questions, contact Carmen Julia Holguin-Chaparro, cjhch@unm.edu or Melina Vizca\u00edno-Alem\u00e1n, mviz@unm.edu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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