Gerald Fleming, Florencia Milito, Francisco Aragón

On the 11/20/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:

Gerald Fleming joins the show and describes 16 Rivers Press, which publishes poetry collections annually. He then explains the craft behind his recent collection, The Bastard and the Bishop, a collection of prose poems. He then shares a poem, “Refugee” before the next Florencio Milito joins the show. Milito shares how her experiences in Argentina and Venezuela have affected her modern-day poetics, and then shares a poem titled “Lullaby.” She then speaks on her bilingual collection Exiles and Reveries, which details her family life and imagination as a form of resistance. Francisco Aragón, the last guest on the show, discusses the importance of virtual poetry readings during the pandemic. Aragón then outlines how he balances his writing life with his professional practice, before sharing his translation of an untitled Francisco X Alacón sonnet.

Gerald Fleming is known for the high quality of his verse, and for his support of other poets. Fleming’s most recent book is The Bastard and the Bishop, (prose poems, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn). Other titles include One, an experiment in monosyllabic prose poems (also Hanging Loose), The Choreographer (Sixteen Rivers, San Francisco), Night of Pure Breathing (HL), Swimmer Climbing onto Shore (Sixteen Rivers), and others. Fleming recently edited The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel (Sixteen Rivers), has edited various literary magazines (traditional, epistolary, vitreous).

Florencia Milito is a bilingual poet whose work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Indiana Review, Catamaran, Diálogo, 92nd Street Y, among others. In 2022, Militod Community of Writers alumna and San Francisco Writers Grotto and CantoMundo fellow, her writing has been influenced by her early experience fleeing the U.S.-supported 1976 coup in Argentina, subsequent childhood in Venezuela, and immigration to the United States at the age of nine. Her bilingual collection Ituzaingó: Exiles and Reveries / exilios y ensueños was originally published in 2021 by Nomadic Press. Her chapbook Sor Juana, published by Gunpowder Press in 2023, won the Alta California Chapbook Prize and 

Francisco Aragón is the author of three books of poetry, including After Rubén (2020), Glow of Our Sweat (2010), and Puerta de Sol (2005).  His more than twenty anthology publications include Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (2024); Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology (2022) and Why To These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers (2021). A native of San Francisco, CA, he is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where he teaches courses in Latinx poetry and creative writing, and directs Letras Latinas, their literary initiative. 

The Poetry Night Reading Series will feature the poets Francisco Aragón, Gerald Fleming, and Florencia Milito at 7 PM on Thursday, November 21st, 2024, on the first floor of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.

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