University Club of St. Paul
420 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55102
United States
Event is free and open to the public.
Join for an evening of Readings by Writers hosted by Tim Nolan. Michael Bazzett’s most recent book is If Today Were Tomorrow a collection of translations of the poetry of Humberto Ak’abal, a K’iche’ Maya poet from Guatemala. He will be joined by Mary Junge, Timothy Young, and Mary Kay Rumme who also have books that have recently been published.
Michael Bazzett
Michael Bazzett is the author of You Must Remember This, which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, The Interrogation, and most recently The Echo Chamber. He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh, the first English verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, which was named a New York Times Best Book of 2018. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Ploughshares, The Sun, and Best New Poets. He is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and lives in Minneapolis.
A masterful bilingual collection of poems rooted in K’iche’ Maya culture illustrating all the ways meaning manifests within our world, and how best to behold it.