Join filmmaker Juan Carlos Galeano for a discussion immediately following the 5pm screening of his film El Río (2018) on Thursday 30 January in 250 KMBL. The post-screening discussion will begin approximately 6pm.
Juan Carlos Galeano was born in the Amazon region of Colombia. He is the author of Baraja Inicial (poetry, 1986), Pollen and Rifles (1997) a book on the poetry of violence, and Amazonia (poetry, 2003), Sobre las cosas (poetry, 2010), and Amazonia y otros poemas (poetry, 2011), and Historias del viento (poetry, 2013). He teaches Latin American poetry and cultures of the Amazon basin at Florida State University.