The upcoming 10th Biennial Conference of the William Carlos Williams Society: “Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras” will take place at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, from February 15 to 18, 2024.
Hosted by the Departments of English and Humanities, Marta Aponte Alsina, author of La muerte feliz de Williams Carlos Williams (Candaya, February 2022) will deliver a keynote speech—“That fertile darkness: Mayagüez, the mother and the poet”—on Thursday, February 15, at 10:30am (AST) at the Ramón Figueroa Chapel Amphitheater. The amphitheater is located at the Carlos E. Chardón Building (Laureles Avenue) at the UPR-Mayagüez [aka Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM)].
Marta Aponte Alsina was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico. She has published the novels Angélica furiosa (1994), El cuarto rey mago (1996), Vampiresas (2004), Sexto sueño (2007, Premio Nacional de Novela del Pen Club de Puerto Rico), El fantasma de las cosas (2009), Sobre mi cadáver (2012), and Mr. Green (2013); the short story collections La casa de la loca (2001) and Fúgate (2005); and the monographs Somos islas (2015) and PR3 Aguirre (2018); among many others.
She has been editor of numerous books and journals, such as the anthology Narraciones puertorriqueñas, published by Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho. In 2014, the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Puerto Rico awarded her the Nilita Vientós Gastón endowed chair. Cristina Rivera Garza included her in a selection of 12 essential authors from Latin America, published in Publisher’s Weekly magazine in 2018.
For more information on the speaker and her book, see https://www.candaya.com/autor/marta-aponte/ and https://www.candaya.com/libro/la-muerte-feliz-de-william-carlos-williams/
Also see previous post https://repeatingislands.com/2022/05/16/new-book-la-muerte-feliz-de-william-carlos-williams/
The upcoming 10th Biennial Conference of the William Carlos Williams Society: “Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras” will take place at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, from February 15 to 18, 2024. Hosted by the Departments of English and Humanities, Marta Aponte Alsina, author of La muerte feliz de Williams Carlos Williams (Candaya, February 2022) will deliver
