Passageways Launch Party in NYC
McNally-Jackson | 52 Prince Street | New York, New York
Join author Naja Marie Aidt and translators Erica Mena and Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren for spirited readings from the new volume of TWO LINES, Passageways. Co-sponsored with the popular New York reading series The Bridge, this event happens at the lovely McNally-Jackson bookstore.
Hear Mena read from the politically inflected Puerto Rican poet Rafael Acevedo, Morgenstern-Clarren on the Brazilian poet Flávio de Araújo, and Aidt read from her short story “Blackcurrant,” which involves sex with sheep. You can also be among the first to purchase Passageways and get it signed!
Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of seven collections of poetry and five short story collections, including Baboon, which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Erica Mena is finishing her MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. Her poems and translations have appeared with Vanitas, Dos Passos Review, Pressed Wafer, Arrowsmith Press, Words Without Borders, Iowa Review, the Kenyon Review, PEN America, and Asymptote, among others. She cohosts the Reading the World Podcast and is founding editor of Anomalous Press.
Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren is an MFA candidate in poetry and literary translation at Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Nimrod, Calyx, New Delta Review, and Upstairs at Duroc. More of her translations of Flávio de Araújo’s Zangareio are forthcoming in Asymptote.