Join us for a poetry reading by Miguel Avero and the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, publishing their first-ever translation with Aguas/Waters by Avero and translated by Jona Colson. Miguel Avero is a prolific contemporary writer in Uruguay, the smallest Spanish-speaking country in South America that is often overlooked for its literary significance. Uruguayan poetry is difficult to find in translation, and his work carries themes that include his love for his motherland, civil war, and political corruption. Avero’s poems elevate impressions of the everyday into something that we can only know through love and image.

This event is free and open to the public.