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POESIA Program – Saturday, April 27, 2024

Carlos A. Almeida, Ph. D

Dr.  Carlos A. Almeida is a Professor of Portuguese and the Director of LusoCentro at Bristol Community College, in Fall River, Massachusetts and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received a...

POESIA Program – Saturday, April 27, 2024

Onesimo T. Almeida

Onésimo Teotónio Almeida was born in S. Miguel, Azores, in 1946. He graduated from the Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, in 1972. He received his MA (1977) and Ph.D. (1980) in Philosophy at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, where he has taught...

Scott Edward Anderson

Scott Edward Anderson

Scott Edward Anderson is an award-winning poet, memoirist, essayist, and translator. He is the author of Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations (2022), Azorean Suite/Suite Açoriana (2020), the Nautilus Award-winning Dwelling: an ecopoem (2018), and...

POESIA Program – Saturday, April 27, 2024

José Francisco Costa

José F Costa was born in Capelas, S. Miguel, Açores. He did his studies at the Seminary of Angra in the Azores, the Catholic University in Lisbon, the Classic University of Lisbon (BA), Brown University (Master’s), and University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PhD). He...

POESIA Program – Saturday, April 27, 2024

Irene De Amaral

Irene de Amaral is currently responsible for the management of Casa da Saudade Library, the Portuguese Branch of the New Bedford Free Public Library. She is a Luso-American who, throughout her life, has had the privilege of studying and working in both Portugal and...

POESIA Program – Saturday, April 27, 2024

Grace Holleran

Grace Holleran translates literature from Portuguese to English. A PhD candidate in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Grace holds a Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship with the Center for Portuguese Studies &...

POESIA Program – Saturday, April 27, 2024

Anna M. Klobucka

Anna M. Klobucka is Commonwealth Professor of Portuguese and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She holds a BA/MA in Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw (1986) and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard...

POESIA Program – Saturday, April 27, 2024

João Silva

João Silva, a Resource Economist, Teacher, retired Public-Servant, Musician/Arranger/Composer, was born in October 1954 in São Miguel, Azores and immigrated to the United States In 1968. João was raised with music. His mother played some guitar (Portuguese) and sang...