Linguistically
and culturally straddling the Old and New Worlds with enthusiasm, tomorrow’s Open Mic speaker
at the Stamford Barnes & Noble, Sophie Marinez, writes and performs poetry
in three languages and is a professor of French and Spanish at the City
University of New York, where she is active with the internationally-based
Writers Studio workshop program, located in Greenwich Village.
Santo Domingo Carnival |
Identifying
herself as a French-Dominican New Yorker, Sophie was born in France of a French
mother and Dominican father in exile, later to relocate to the Dominican Republic
when she was seven.
Lyon Festival of Lights |
Save for a two-year diplomatic post in Mexico as Cultural Counselor
at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, Sophie has lived in New York City
since 1994, where her academic specialties include early modern French
literature, Dominican-American literature and identity. Her past inter-cultural
work also lends considerable sensitivity to her scholarship into Haitian-Dominican
relations.
Her interest in the human commonalities of varied forms of expression likewise informs this darkly comedic snippet:
from
"Carnival
Day in Santo Domingo"
Diablos
Cojuelos!
Limping
Devils,
and had
broken a leg,
leapt with
huge, horned
grimacing heads,
brightly dressed
in silky red,
tiny mirrors
and shiny sleigh bells…
In
addition to her Ph. D. in French, Sophie received a degree in translation
from the Universidad Apec in Santo Domingo, as well as a degree in acting from
the School of Performing Arts of Santo Domingo.
Hosted by Frank Chambers and PoemAlley's Nick Miele, the Barnes & Noble Open Mic Poetry program meets the second Monday of each month in the cookbook section on the main floor of the bookstore (located in the Stamford Town Center), beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
100 Greyrock Place Suite H009
Stamford, CT 06901
203-323-1248
Sophie Marinez.
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