Eulalia Books

Jeannine Marie Pitas is the author of three poetry chapbooks and the translator of several Uruguayan poets, including Marosa di Giorgio. Her first full-length poetry collection, Things Seen and Unseen, was published by Mosaic Press in 2019. She lives in Iowa and teaches at the University of Dubuque. Michelle Gil-Montero, editor at Eulalia Books, speaks to Jeannine Pitas, translator of Eco del Parque (Echo of the Park), by Romina Freschi, Eulalia’s first full-length book of poetry. Pitas describes her translation process, reads select poetry from the book, and answers attendees’ questions.

Rachel Galvin, poet, translator, and scholar, was the final reader in the spring 2019 Saint Vincent College Visiting Writers Series. She is an associate professor at the University of Chicago and a co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective (www.outranspo.com [http://www.outranspo.com/]). Rachel Galvin reads from Elevated Threat Level, a collection of her lyric poetry that reflects on news reporting, natural disasters, journalist safety, and much more.

Abigail Chabitnoy is a poet of Unangan and Sugpiaq descent and a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, Alaska. She received her MFA at Colorado State University, where she was an associate editor for the Colorado Review. Her first full length book of poetry, How to Dress a Fish was published in February of 2019 by Wesleyan University Press. Abigail Chabitnoy reads from How to Dress a Fish, which addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, three poetry collections, and three poetry chapbooks. She has also co-edited a fiction anthology and is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she now teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University and Ashland University, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol [http://www.puertodelsol.org/] and the publisher of Noemi Press [http://www.noemipress.org/]. Smith reads from her works and discusses them with an audience.

Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of six collections of poetry including The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). His poetry has appeared in many anthologies, and his poems and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry and Ploughshares, among others. He also has a novel entitled Summer Shares (out from Arche Books). Pilkington reads from his works, as do the winners of the 2012 Ragan Poetry Contest.