Cuban Poet Pablo Armando Fernández

Reading tonight!

Friday, Dec. 3
6:00 pm
New Mexico History Museum Auditorium
113 Lincoln Avenue

“What makes me truly Cuban, is its history, the men and women who handed in their fortune in order to make Cuba a sovereign country. You will find this in poetry from Heredia to Guillén. To be part of that generation consolidates my being.”

Known in his country simply as "El Poeta," Pablo Armando Fernández has an enormous reputation and a distinguished career as a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, editor and diplomat. His works have been translated into French, Italian, Polish and English. His 2001 work, Parables: Selected Poems, featured an introduction by Margaret Atwood. He received the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1996 for lifetime accomplishment, and formerly served as the Cultural Counselor to the Cuban Embassy in London.

Attendees will receive a keepsake poem of Armando's specially printed by the Palace Press. Seating is limited to 200.

This free event is co-sponsored by the Lannan Foundation, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, and the Information Trust as a benefit for the Palace Press.