Thursday, October 29, 2026 |  2:00pm–3:00pm
Heimbold Visual Arts Center—Donnelley Film Theatre

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale at the event by Transom Bookshop.

Patricio Ferrari is a polyglot poet, literary translator, and editor. He holds an MAS from the Sorbonne, an MFA from Brown University, and a PhD from the University of Lisbon. As translator and editor, he has published more than twenty books, including the complete works of Fernando Pessoa’s three heteronyms—Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis—co-translated with Margaret Jull Costa, and The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik (2018), co-translated with Forrest Gander. His other book-length translations and co-translations include works by António Osório, Laynie Browne, Martin Corless-Smith, Frank Stanford, W.S. Merwin, and Juan Arabia. In 2026, Ferrari received the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of his Elsehere trilogy. 

Mónica de la Torre (she/her) was born and raised in Mexico City. Her full-length poetry collections include Pause the Document (Nightboat Books, 2025), Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020), The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017), Public Domain (Roof Books, 2008), Talk Shows (Switchback Books, 2007). With artist Terence Gower, she co-authored the art book Appendices, Illustrations & Notes (Smart Art Press, 1999). Her books written in Spanish and published in Mexico include Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria, 2006) and Taller de Taquimecanografía (Tumbona Ediciones, 2011), written with the eponymous artists' collective she co-founded. Her translations from Spanish include Lila Zemborain’s Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna Books, 2007; co-translated with Rosa Alcalá) and Poems by Gerardo Deniz (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000), which she also edited.