Two award-winning Spanish writers will give public readings of their works as part of a residency at Dickinson.<\/p>\n
Ana Merino<\/strong>, author, poet and professor at the University of Iowa, will read on Tuesday, April 5, at 7 p.m.<\/strong> in the Stern Center Great Room.<\/p>\n Manuel Vilas<\/strong>, novelist and poet, will read on Tuesday, April 12, at 7 p.m.<\/strong> in room 235, Weiss Center for the Arts.<\/p>\n Merino is an award-winning poet and writer whose works include nine books of poems, a youth novel and two plays. She has also written fiction and extensive criticism on comics and graphic novels in Spanish-speaking countries. Merino is director of the University of Iowa\u2019s MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish, the first program of its kind in the U.S.<\/p>\n Vilas is a novelist and poet. His six collections of poetry have recently been compiled into a single volume. He has also published collections of essays and memoirs and has received critical acclaim and literary prizes.<\/p>\n The writers\u2019 readings are part of their three-week residency at Dickinson, which includes class visits and a six-session workshop on creative writing in Spanish. They will also be giving a reading on April 6 at the Library of Congress in Washington. The residency is made possible by a grant from Acci\u00f3n Cultural Espa\u00f1ola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two award-winning Spanish writers will give public readings of their works as part of a residency at Dickinson. Ana Merino, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}