Seattle Public Library, downtown

Photographic Letters: An afternoon of poetry. A reading of new work by author Eugenia Toledo.

Saturday - January 15th, 2011
2pm - 4pm
Level 4, Room 2

Over the past two years, Eugenia Toledo has been working on a poetic project titled "Photographic Letters." Her poems have been inspired and based upon the theme of: The Life of Latino People in the Northwest. This project follows the photographic work of the documentary photographer Hugo Ludeña.

During the creation of this work, Toledo has applied the poetic process called "Ekphrastic Poetry." An Ekphrastic process begins with inspiration from another piece of artwork. In “Photographic Letters” the poems are written response to the images. 

Eugenia Toledo, a native from Temuco – Chile, has a Ph.D. in Latin American and Spanish Literature from the University of Washington. Most of her work is a result of research and collective experience. 

She has two published books of poetry called Arquitectura de Ausencias (Architecture of Absences) and  Tiempo de metales y volcanes  (Time of Metals and Volcanoes). You can find her most recently published contribution in the anthology entitled New Poets of the American West.

This presentation at the Seattle Public Library will be a bilingual reading with the assistance of translators Susan Sola and Anne Greeott. 

The project has been supported by 

2010 CityArtist Project Program 

City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

The 2010 City Artist Projects annual funding program supports the development and presentation of original work by individual artists based in Seattle.