About this Event
Brazilian poet Ricardo Domeneck reads from his new bilingual poetry collection First Epistle to the Amphibians, published by World Poetry Books. The book presents a selection spanning over two decades of his work, exploring themes of the body, desire, language, memory, and contemporary life through experimental lyric poetry. Domeneck will be joined by translator Chris Daniels, who translated the volume, followed by a conversation with writer and translator Katrina Dodson.
Ricardo Domeneck is a Brazilian writer based in Berlin. He has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. He is the recipient of two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens, and selected volumes of his poems have appeared in German, Dutch and Spanish. Working with sound and performance, he has presented work in several museums and galleries. First Epistle to the Amphibians (World Poetry, 2026) is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation.
Chris Daniels is a feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of poetry by Fernando Pessoa, Josely Vianna Baptista, Adelaide Ivánova, Lubi Prates, and Orides Fontela. His selected volume of Ricardo Domeneck’s poems, First Epistle to the Amphibians, will be released by World Poetry Books in April 2026.
Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2015), winner of the PEN Translation Prize and other awards. Her translation of Mário de Andrade's 1928 Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero With No Character was published by New Directions in 2023. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and is an affiliated scholar of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. Originally from San Francisco, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches translation at Columbia University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Consulate General of Brazil in New York, 225 East 41st Street, New York, United States
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