Featured Reading: Carla Faesler

Carla Faesler is the author of four books of poems: Anábasis Maqueta, (National Price of Literature “Gilberto Owen”. Editorial Diamantina, 2004), No Tú sino la Piedra, (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia 1999), Mi alma es un fantasma, poesía y fotopoesía, (fall 2010) and the plaquette Ríos sagrados que la herejía navega, (Ediciones Mixcóatl, 1996).

Her work is included in many anthologies, including: Sin puertas visibles (Without Visible Doors), by editor and poet Jen Hofer (Pittsburg University Press, USA, 2003), 16 Balas, an anthology of contemporary mexican poetry by the poet and anthologist Antonio Orihuela (Fundación Juan Ramón Jiménez, Moguer, Andalucía, España, 2008), Del silencio hacia la luz, Mapa Poético de México. 1960-1989, (Adán Echeverría anthologist, México, 2009), Nosotros que nos queremos tanto, Contemporary Poetry of Mexico, (El Billar de Lucrecia, México, 2008), V Siglos de Poesía Femenina en México, XVIth to XXth centuries, (Bicentenary Collection of the Estate of México, 2010).

Faesler has participated in numerous international literary festivals, including: Festival de poesía Caracól 2009, Tijuana, BC, México, Feria del Libro Bilingüe de Ciudad Juárez, México, 2007, the “Festival Internacional Letras de San Luis” México, 2006, the “Segue readings” at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, 2006, the “Poesía 100% Festival” 2003, organized by the Fundación Pablo Neruda in Santiago de Chile andthe O Miami Poetry Festival in April 2010. In April 2010 she was a participant in the New Writing Series at the University of San Diego, California.

In June 2009, she participated in a “film-poems” project realized in Tangier, Morocco, by Tamaas Foundation, in which four poet-filmmaker pairs collaborated in the creation of experimental films. The same project was also screened at the International Film Festival of Berlin 2010.

Carla Faesler co-founded along with Rocío Cerón, MotínPoeta, a collective initiative that promotes interdisciplinary projects featuring poetry as the starting point. For the last few years she has been working on projects of photo-poetry and video-poetry: http://www.youtube.com/user/motinpoetacanal. With MotinPoeta, she co-produced Urbe probeta (2004) and Personae (2007), two CD’s that reunite the collaborative work of poets, music producers and sound artists.