A POETRY READING
BY RAQUEL ALBARRÁN
AND CARLOS SOTO ROMÁN
BY RAQUEL ALBARRÁN
AND CARLOS SOTO ROMÁN
6pm in the Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia
Raquel Albarrán (San Juan, 1983) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her poetry and prose has appeared in several Puerto Rican literary journals, including Derivas, a collective literary blog for emergent Puerto Rican writers that she also co-founded in 2006. Her first poetry collection, La intimidad de los extraños (Stranger Intimacy) is expected to be published in Mexico City.
Carlos Soto Román was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He has published the books La Marcha de los Quiltros (The Mongrel's March, 1999), Haiku Minero (Miner Haiku, 2007) and Cambio y Fuera (Over and Out, 2009). He has resided in Philadelphia since March 2009, is a member of The New Philadelphia Poets and the editor of the new cooperative anthology of U.S. poetry, Elective Affinities. He is also a pharmacist and is pursuing a Master in Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
