Thursday, March 23, 7:30 pm
With musicians Satoshi Takeishi and Tomie Hahn

"Language … dipped in the lushness of Latin America" (Gregory Orfalea)

"His writing is like a complex colorful painting, with every word an essential brush stroke." (The Houston Post)

A recipient of an NEA grant, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writing Fellowship, and numerous other awards, Pablo Medina is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for writers at Warren Wilson College and teaches at the New School, where he also serves as director of Lang College's Writing Program. His new collection of poetry, The Floating Island, has been called "a collection to read … and then memorize." He is the author of two other poetry collections and a memoir, as well as a co-translator of the works of Cuban dissident Tania Diaz Castro. His first novel, The Marks of Birth, appeared in 1994, and his second novel, The Return of Felix Nogara, is forthcoming in August 2000. He lives in Montclair, NJ.