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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Dzvinia Orlowsky & María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado
DESCRIPTION:Multi-lingual poets Dzvinia Orlowsky and María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado will read from their respective bodies of work and discuss their poetry and creative processes. While their relationship started as one of mentor and student\, they now call one another cherished friends with a shared passion for exploring how primary languages shape identity and existence.Of Dzvinia\, María Luisa says: “I was researching MFA programs with poets as mentors who would take the cultural languages of my experiences seriously\, who would understand that some of my poems code-switched in Puerto Rican Spanish or German or Farsi were inspired by real relationships. A narrative poet\, I immediately connected with Dzvinia’s online faculty bio and the lyrical pacing of her poems. Imagine my exponential joys in working with Dzvinia as my workshop leader who startled me and my peers with her uncannily spiritual way of responding to the heat in some of our lines and her gentle weeding of words that muffled the music in a poem.”Of María Luisa\, Dzvinia says: “María Luisa’s writing continues to move me with its depth and courage\, imbued with the cultural language of her experiences and a rare sensitivity to the demands of storytelling. Her lyrical narratives delve into profound themes: grappling with familial violence\, witnessing eruptions of public and political violence\, and reflecting on the complex interplay of gender roles and cultural identity. I am drawn to her aspiration to connect with the universe on a spiritual level\, seeking bonds that transcend Immediate reality\, and I look forward to exploring in conversation how these shared ambitions shape our work.”   \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Dzvinia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDzvinia Orlowsky\, a Pushcart Prize poet\, translator\, a Four Way Books founding editor\, has authored seven poetry collections with Carnegie Mellon University Press including Bad Harvest\, a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry and her most recent\, Those Absences Now Closest. She is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Grant\, a New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award\, co-recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts\, and her first collection\, A Handful of Bees\, was reprinted as part of the Carnegie Mellon University Press Classic Contemporary Series. Her poem sequence “The (Dis)enchanted Desna” was a winner of the 2019 New England Poetry Club’s Samuel Washington Allen Prize selected by Robert Pinsky. \n\n\n\nAli Kinsella and Dzvinia’s co-translations from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s Eccentric Days of Hope & Sorrow was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin International Poetry Prize\, the 2022 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize\, ALTA’s 2022 National Translation Award and winner of the 2020-2021 AAUS Prize for Translation. They received a 2024 NEA Translation Fellowship for their translation of Halyna Kruk’s Lost in Living (Lost Horse Press\, 2024)\, and their co-translation of Oleksander Dovzhenko’s novella\, Enchanted Desna\, is forthcoming from Lost Horse Press in 2025. \n\n\n\nAbout María Louisa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Manatí\, Puerto Rico and raised in Springfield\, MA\, María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado received a BA from Colby College and an MA from Tufts University in German\, her third language. The opportunity to work with poets Dzvinia Orlowsky and Laure-Anne Bosselaar under poet Meg Kearney’s transformational leadership led her to pursue her MFA at Pine Manor College (July 2015). Currently she is a Clark Diversity Fellow joyfully pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. \n\n\n\nMaría Luisa writes poetry and prose that code-switch between American English\, Puerto Rican Spanish\, German and Farsi\, the cultural languages of her experiences. Her collections include Thought Here Would Cure Me of There (Lily Poetry Review Books\, 2024)\, Landscapes: photos & poems (MultiCreative Wisdom\, 2023)\, Resistencia: Resilience: essays & poems (Human Error Publishing\, 2023)\, Destierro Means More than Exile: a tribute to 32 women poets (2018); and Gathering Words: recogiendo palabras (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe\, 2008). In 2024\, she curated and published Pán•o•ply\, the inaugural MultiCreative Wisdom anthology featuring creative writers who identify as women or non-binary; and as BIPOC. \n\n\n\nFor 18+ years of facilitating poetry workshops and readings\, many in partnership with the Springfield City Library\, she was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Springfield\, MA (2014-2016) and a New England Public Radio’s Arts and Humanities recipient (2016). In May 2024\, she received an honorary degree in fine arts from Smith College in recognition of her impact as a multilingual Boricua poet and intersectional feminist educator.  
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