LOBA POETRY SERIES
Monthly Poet Features with poet-translators: Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales

Thursday, May 26th

7PM on Zoom

Join Ukiah Branch Library staff on the last Thursdays of the month at 7 pm for a live virtual poetry reading & open mic on Zoom. This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style, or just listen to others.

On May 26th, we will host a bilingual event from Plagios/ Plagiarisms, Vol. II with poet-translators: Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales reading the poems of Ulalume González de León who believed that “Everything has already been said,” and thus each act of creation is a rewriting, reshuffling, and reconstructing of one great work. For this reason, she chose the title Plagios (Plagiarisms) for her book.
Registration is required. Please contact Melissa at the Ukiah Library for the Zoom link: carrm@mendocinocounty.org.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ULALUME GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN was born in 1928 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the daughter of two poets, Roberto Ibáñez and Sara de Ibáñez. She studied literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Mexico. While living in Mexico in 1948, Ulalume became a naturalized Mexican citizen. She married painter and architect Teodoro González de León, and together they had three children. She published essays, stories, and poems and worked with Mexican poet and Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz as an editor of two literary journals, Plural and Vuelta. She also translated the works of H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Lewis Carroll, and e.e. cummings.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
TERRY EHRET, one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press, has published four collections of poetry, most recently Night Sky Journey from Kelly’s Cove Press. Her literary awards include the National Poetry Series, the California Book Award, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, a nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award, and five Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2004–2006, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County, where she lives and teaches writing.

JOHN JOHNSON’S poetry has appeared in many print and online journals, including Boxcar Poetry Review, Clade Song, Triggerfish Critical Review, and Web Conjunctions. He is a long-time student of the Spanish language and has studied letter-press printing with Iota Press of Sebastopol, producing chapbooks and bilingual broadsides.

NANCY J. MORALES, a first-generation American of Puerto Rican parents, earned her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College, a master’s in teaching English as a Second Language from Adelphi University, and a doctorate in education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She has taught at Dominican University, College of Marin, Sonoma State University, and other schools, from elementary to graduate levels. Currently, she is a board member for the Northern California Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association and teaches Spanish to private clients.