With poet Gary Snyder.

2019 ASLE Conference ~ Paradise on Fire

University of California, Davis

June 26 - 30, 2019

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June 26 3:30-5pm

2-C. 7 Minutes to Make a Better World Stream: Creative Engagements

Chair: José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 

~ANIMA MUNDI: From Deus Ex-Nihilo to Deus Ex-Machina to Sensus Communis, Ignacio Valero, California College of the Arts -San Francisco 

~From There to Here, From Then to Now, Verses 1–7, Joan Giroux, Columbia College Chicago, and Lisa Marie Kaftori, Compassionate Action Enterprises 

~Desert Pecha Kucha, Alisa Slaughter, University of Redlands 

~A Donkey´s Gaze to Make a Better World (excerpts from Landscapes with Donkey, Green Writers Press 2018), José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 

Selections from Auguries (Brick Books 2017), Clea Roberts, University of British Columbia 

~We Are Water: Kinship of Rivers, Ping Wang, Macalester College

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June 27, 10:30-12:00pm

4-O. Challenging the Paradises of the Anthropocene: Mines, Plantations, Resorts Stream: Place and Paradise

Chair: José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

~Urban Postgrowth Imaginaries and Decolonial Paradises, Luis I. Prádanos, Miami University 

~He Simply Went to See the Ruins, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, Penn State University 

~Nature as Impossible Garden, Some Visions from the South, Pablo Chiuminatto, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile 

~Paradise Laid Bare: Juan Villoro’s Arrecife as Capitalocene Fiction, Micah McKay, University of Alabama

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

7-9pm

Sacaramento Poetry Center

1719 25th Street (25th & R Complex)

Sacramento, CA

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Featured poet from Spain, Jose Manuel Marrero Henriquez, will be presenting. Readings by Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun & Music by Jimmie Kay Ramos.

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Reading of Landscapes with Donkey / Paisajes con burro by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez: Book presentation and reading, July 5, Thursday.

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Poets presenting:

-Jorge Riechmann

-Ariadna García

-José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

-Julia Barella

-José María Parreño

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Reading of Landscapes with Donkey / Paisajes con burro

by poet José Manuel Marrero Henríquez 

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June 20, 4:00 to 5:30pm

Universidad de Extremadura

Cáceres, Spain

Poets House

10 River Terrace

New York, NY 

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Reading by translator Ellen Skowronski-Polito

Green Writers Press, www.greenwriterspress.org