The Splice Poetry Series: Mónica de la Torre & Lara Glenum

Mónica de la Torre & Lara Glenum will read their poems at Saturn Bar on Saturday, March 8th @ 6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public and is supported in part by http://litwire.org/

Mónica de la Torre’s most recent book of poems and experimental translations is Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat). Other collections include The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse)—a riff on a riff on Kafka’s Amerika—and Public Domain (Roof Books). She has published several books in her native Mexico City, including Taller de Taquimecanografía (Tumbona), written jointly with the eponymous women artists’ collective she co-founded. With Alex Balgiu, she coedited the international anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (Primary Information, 2020) and is coeditor of the volume Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon, 2001). A recipient of a 2022 Creative Capital grant and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry, she teaches poetry at Brooklyn College. A new collection, Pause the Document, is forthcoming from Nightboat in early 2025.

Lara Glenum the author of five books of poetry: Snow, Pop Corpse, All Hopped Up On Fleshy Dumdums, Maximum Gaga, and The Hounds of No. She is also the co-editor of Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics, an anthology of contemporary women’s poetry and visual art. She is an Associate Professor of English at LSU.