Bilingual poetry reading with Javier Adrada de la Torre

Award-winning poet Javier Adrada de la Torre presents a bilingual poetry reading of “Title_Essay on an Infinite Onion” at Le Moyne College, joined by a student reading the English translation by Orlando Ocampo.

Award-winning Spanish poet and translator Javier Adrada de la Torre visits Le Moyne College from Monday, September 30, to Thursday, October 3, to conduct a series of poetry workshops and engage with students in the Creative Writing and Contemporary Spanish Poetry courses. His visit will culminate in a bilingual poetry reading on Thursday, October 3, at 7 pm at the Noreen Reale Falcone Library.

Adrada’s visit will focus on fostering literary engagement through hands-on workshops, exploring the nuances of poetic translation, and discussing his recent work. The bilingual reading will feature selections from Title_Essay on an Infinite Onion, which won the Emilio Prados Young Poetry Award in 2023. This critically acclaimed collection, known for its profound symbolism and exploration of existential themes, has been translated into English by Professor Orlando Ocampo and edited by the historic Sur printing press of the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 in Málaga.

The evening will also include a collaborative element, with a poetry student joining Adrada to read the English translations. Copies of Title_Essay on an Infinite Onion, provided courtesy of the Centro Cultural Generación del 27, will be distributed to attendees.

Javier Adrada

Javier Adrada de la Torre (Madrid, 1996) holds a PhD on Translation and Intercultural Mediation from the University of Salamanca. He currently works as a teacher at the Rey Juan Carlos University, and his research interests revolve around poetry, translation, and transmedial artforms. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and El Colegio de México. He won the MRA Ediciones Novel Prize (La aurora de los girasoles, 2014), the 22nd International Poetry Prize Martín García Ramos (Gasolineras, 2024) and the 24th International Poetry Prize Emilio Prados (título_ensayo sobre una cebolla infinita, 2024).

He is also the author of Luis Cernuda y Friedrich Hölderlin: traducción, poesía y representación and Espejismo de un dios, and he has published his poetry in magazines such as Zéjel, Casapaís, El coloquio de los perros and other literary anthologies.

Orlando Ocampo

Orlando Ocampo holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from the National University of Tucumán, Argentina, and received his Master’s in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages from the University of Chicago. He is Professor Emeritus at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, where he taught in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures until his retirement in 2022. His academic interests encompass both the literature, history, and culture of Spain and Latin America. In translation, he has primarily focused on Spanish poets, particularly the poetry of Aurora Luque.