Latin Diasporic Dialogue: featuring authors John Ross, Ernesto Quinones and Leo Guevara Navarro
Guild Complex

This program presents together the disciplines of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Each writer is a stitch in the complex quilt of social political and artistic life in the Latin world.


11/13/2001 - 11/13/2001

7:00pm


This program presents together the disciplines of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Each writer is a stitch in the complex quilt of social political and artistic life in the Latin world.
Latin American author John Ross was one of the first correspondents on the ground in Chiapas following the Zapatistas, New Year's 1994 rebellion. Author, correspondent, activist, poet, his latest book, The War Against Oblivion, speaks to the reader through the voices of the Zapatistas, charismatic Subcomandante Marcos, the Mayan villagers of Chapas, and Ross, own ineffable gift of gab. Ross is a long-time Mexico correspondent for Noticias Aliadas (Lima), Gemini News Service (London), and the LA Weekly. Other books by the author include the poetry chapbooks Whose Bones, Jazz Mexico, and the newly released Against Amnesia from which he will also read.
An Ecuadorian-Puerto Rican who grew up in Spanish Harlem and became a teacher of bilingual fourth graders in the South Bronx, Ernesto Quinonez drew on his life experiances to write Bodega Dreams (Vintage, 2000). Receiving acclaim from critics and the general public alike, Bodega Dreams, is a present-day morality tale cetered on the teenaged Chino and the slippery path he must negotiaate to survive in El Barrio. Last year Barnes and Noble featured Quinonez in its award competition for first-time authors, Discover Great New Writers. Fox Searchlight Films has optioned the rights to the novel.
Poet Leo Guevara Navarro hails from Havana, Cuba. He is a member of the Union of Cuban Artists and Writers, The Association of Hermanos Saiz, and the performance group Zona Franca of Alamar. He has taught workshops at the Jose Lezama Lima Museum and the Havana University of Industrial Design. He is the author of the poetry collection Life in Communion (Cuban Letters). His work can also be found in the anthology of young Cuban and Mexican writers.
Many thanks to the Ford Motor Company and the PEN American Center for sponsoring Ernesto Quinones' appearance at the Guild Complex.

Performers
John Ross, Ernesto Quinones and Leo Guevara Navarro

Tags: Literary, Rest Of The World, 2001