Bilingual Poetry Night Thursday April 19 at Asymmetrick Arts

Bilingual Poetry Night Thursday April 19 at Asymmetrick Arts
Editor: David Mills


ROCKLAND, ME - POETRY MONTH ROCKLAND, The Penobscot School and Asymmetrick Arts present Bilingual Poetry Night on Thursday April 19th, 6:30pm at Asymmetrick Arts, 405 Main Street, Rockland, ME.

Poems will be spoken in Italian, Spanish, & Polish along, with their English translations

Billy Smith & Juana Domenech will read poems by Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and  by poet and playwright Federico García Lorca.  Billy Smith studied English Literature, music and Romance Language at the University of Notre Dame, then earned a Masters in English Literature at the University of Toronto. He serves as a nurse interpreter, and received his Diploma en Español como Lengua Extranjera from the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2006. Juana Doménech Subirán hails from Logroño, Spain and is in Rockland for the months of April and May to assist in the Penobscot’s School’s Spanish language programs.  Juana is an industrial engineer teaching in the University of La Rioja. She participated in the English immersion at Penobscot School in August, 2010 and is now returning to share her language and culture with the community

Ezio Romeo will read poems in Italian & English by Eugenio Montale, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975, and Giorgio Caproni, an Italian poet, literary critic and translator. Ezio Romeo is the Penobscot School’s Italian exchange teacher for 2012 and is from Acireale in Catania, Sicily. He has a degree (Italian Literature) from the university there. He received his Masters in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language in 2008 from the University for Foreigners in Sienna. Since graduation, he has taught Italian in Argentina, Spain and India and Italian and Spanish in Portugal. He enjoys sharing his cultural identity as part of teaching his mother tongue.


Marta Crowl and Ian Czasak will read poems in Polish & English by Wisława Szymborska-Włodek, a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Rockland resident Marta Crowl has a degree in English philology from the Jagollonian University in Cracow, Poland, the fourth oldest university in Europe. Crowl received her R.N. degree from the University of Maine in Augusta and works as a pediatric nurse. Ian Czasak is the son of Polish immigrants and grew up bilingual.