Join us on November 14th at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (formerly the Mid-Manhattan Library) for an evening of poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, hosted by Patricio Ferrari, and with musical accompaniment by percussionist Nava Dunkelman.

Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in Elbasan, Albania. She grew up under house arrest during Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist regime. Lleshanaku has worked as a lecturer, literary magazine editor, journalist, and screenwriter, and is currently the research director at Tirana’s Institute of Studies of Communist Genocide. She is the author of eight poetry collections published in Albania. Her books have received many national and international awards and have been translated into several languages. New Directions also publishers her collections Child of Nature and Fresco: Selected Poems.

Patricio Ferrari is a polyglot poet, literary translator, and editor born in Argentina to Italian immigrants. As a translator and literary editor, Patricio has published 20 works, including The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik, The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos by Pessoa, both with New Directions, and Habla terreña by Frank Stanford (Pre-textos, 2023). His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books, among others. Patricio teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Rutgers University, enjoys an ongoing collaboration with the Endangered Language Alliance, and hosts the “World Poetry in Translation” reading series in NYC, celebrating foreign poets and translators.

Limelight Poetry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting world poetry, founded in 2024 in New York City by poet Wang Yin. It invites outstanding poets and artists from around the world to share their work in various forms, with the goal of showcasing poetry in underrepresented languages. Drawing on the city's rich cultural resources, Limelight Poetry connects poetry with other art forms, fostering a global exchange of poetic expression. It welcomes audiences into a vibrant and inspiring world of poetry, music, and beyond.

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