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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., April 14, 2014—Poet Roberto Tejada will give a poetry reading and lead a discussion at Williams College on Friday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the rotunda of the Williams College Museum of Art. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served after the talk.
Tejada is the author of three volumes of poetry: Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006), Exposition Park (Wesleyan, 2010), and Full Foreground (Arizona, 2012). In the 1990s, he founded the journal Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, which emphasizes innovative writing in its original language and in translation.
Tejada is also a renowned art historian. He is the author of National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (Minnesota, 2009), A Ver: Celia Alvarez Muñoz (Minnesota, 2009), and co-editor of Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). He has served as co-curator on exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Hood Museum of Dartmouth College.
Tejada is a professor of art history and endowed distinguished research chair in art history at Southern Methodist University. He is currently in residence in Williamstown as the Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow and Clark Mellon Curatorial Fellow.
The event is sponsored by the department of English.
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Published April 14, 2014
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