Welcome to National Poetry Month in the United States. Join PBBI-Fresno State, as we bring you voices from the Portuguese Speaking World in translation (some in Portuguese) to commemorate this national event.
The inaugural poem is from António Franco Alexandre masterfully read by Professor Miguel Tamen. who holds degrees from the Universidade de Lisboa (BA, 1982; MA, 1985; "Agregação", 1995) and from the University of Minnesota (PhD, 1989). At the University of Lisbon, he also teaches in the Romance Literatures Department. Between 2000 and 2014 he held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago; he also was a senior fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2003/4) and at the National Humanities Center (2010/11). His main interests include philosophy and literature. Has written nine books, among which Friends of Interpretable Objects (2001) and What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books (2012) and was recently (2020) one of the co-editors of O Cânone. He is currently Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities. Please take a look and please share.
Let's all bring a bit of the poetry of Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world to National Poetry Month in the US.
Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute-Fresno State
- PBBI-Fresno State--National Poetry Month in the U S-- Miguel Tamen ( Download)
- PBBI-Fresno State-national Poetry Month-April, 2021-Logan Duarte ( Download)
- My Country, Left and Right, a lecture by professor Miguel Tamen ( Download)
- #28 Miguel Tamen - “Porque é que perceber um poema não é diferente de perceber um gato E... ( Download)
- Miguel Tamen and Hunter Dukes: Closeness ( Download)
- Eutopos: algumas vantagens das universidades | Miguel Tamen ( Download)
- Encontro Ciência e Universo - O Homem e o Planeta, Adam Rutherford e Maria Manuel Mota ( Download)
