BILINGUAL READINGS WITH MEXICAN POET 
DAVID HUERTA
David Huerta will read from Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poems of David Huerta
with his award-winning translator, Mark Schafer, at Jamaicaway Books and Boston University.
Huerta is one of Mexico’s most important living poets. He is the author of 19 collections of poetry, a
professor of literature at the Autonomous University of Mexico City, a columnist, scholar, and cultural activist.
Schafer has translated the poetry, novels, stories and essays of many Latin American writers. He is also a visual artist and co-coordinator of the Spanish/English Certificate Program at UMass Boston.
Saturday, April 11
Jamaicaway Books
3:00 pm
Location: 676 Centre St
Jamaica Plain, MA
(between Burroughs St & Seaverns Ave)
Contact: Valerie Stephens
617 983-3204
Tuesday, April 14
Boston University
5:15 pm
Location: CAS, Room 200
725 Commonwealth Ave.
(“B” Green Line, “BU Central” stop)
Contact: Dept. of Romance Studies
617 353-6216
These readings are made possible with support from the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, the Romance
Studies Department and the Geddes Lecture Series at Boston University, the Mexican Cultural Institutes of New
York and Washington, D.C., the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Secretaría de Relaciones
Exteriores.
For more information on Huerta, Schafer, or Before Saying Any of the Great Words, visit www.beforesaying.com
