Alexis Almeida & Corina Copp
Tuesday, April 7
Doors: 7pm
Reading: 7:30pm
Celebrating the Los Angeles launch of Alexis Almeida's new book, Caetano, from Ugly Duckling Presse. With Corina Copp.
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Imagined as a series of experiments in autobiography, Caetano invokes the name of the author’s grandfather to write toward the mystery of family, originals, and their ruptures, breaks, and re-imaginings. Written from distinct positions in time, the poems in this collection think about the (im)possibility of faithful reproduction, the space between an original and its translation, and the moving target of a portrait as it moves through different narrative forms.
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Alexis Almeida is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse), and Things I Have Made a Fiction (winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize). She is most recently the translator of Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems (The Song Cave), and her translation of Laura Fernández’s There’s a Monster in the Lake will be out with Graywolf in late 2026. She lives in New York and edits 18 Owls Press.
Corina Copp is the author of the poetry collection, The Green Ray (2015, Ugly Duckling Presse); and the North American translator of the memoir, My Mother Laughs (2019, The Song Cave), and the play, Night Lobby, both by filmmaker Chantal Akerman. In 2021, she founded Rotations, a film-screening series focused on the detours of nonfiction feminist filmmaking and artist cinema; and she is 1/4 of the reading series, Language Garden. She received her MFA in Playwriting at Brooklyn College – CUNY, working with Mac Wellman. She lives in LA, where she is Special Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts School of Film/Video.