CHI Salon: Voices from the Lusosphere: The Common Launches Its 20th Issue | Events & Calendars | CHI Salon: Voices from the Lusosphere: The Common Launches Its 20th Issue

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Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 4:30 - 5:30pm

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A white poster of headshots of the featured authors: Katherine Vaz, Tiffany Higgins, Jose Pinto de Sa, Eliane Marques, Jethro Soutar, Susana Moreira Marques, Shauna Barbosa

Marking 10 years of publication, Amherst's award-winning literary magazine, The Common, launches its 20th issue with a portfolio of writing from Portugal and its colonial and linguistic diaspora: from Lisbon to Goa; Cape Verde to Rio de Janeiro. Join us for an international reading and conversation, co-hosted by the DISQUIET International Literary Program.

Featured authors:
• Fiction writer Katherine Vaz and poet Shauna Barbosa, representing Luso-America
• Poet Eliane Marques with translator Tiffany Higgins, representing Brazil
• Essayist Susana Moreira Marques, representing Portugal
• José Pinto de Sá and translator Jethro Soutar, representing Mozambique

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Heather Grimes

(413) 542-5870

@amherst.edu