doslenguas Press is a new Philadelphia-based bilingual press under the auspices of Casa de Duende of Culture Trust.
We are a new, independent, bilingual literary press linking the exuberant creativity of the Spanish and English/speaking worlds. we seek to publish bold, unique, memorable, daring and imaginative works that break, play with, critique, destroy and or honor the incredible legacy of literature from the Americas –wherever it might live.
Somos una nueva editorial independiente y bilingüe que conecta la exuberante creatividad literaria de los mundos de habla española e inglesa. buscamos promover obras audaces, únicas, memorables, arriesgadas e imaginativas que desafíen, jueguen, cuestionen, destruyan y/o honren el legado extraordinario de la literature de las Americas –donde quiera que se encuentren.
Johann
Johann Sarmiento-Klapper is a researcher and designer of multimodal experiences by training, and poet, printmaker, and amateur bookmaker -among other things. He received his doctorate in Human-Computer Interaction / Socio-cultural System Design from Drexel University. Originally from Bucaramanga (Colombia), he participated in the poetry workshop at the Industrial University of Santander and in several of the Santander poets' gatherings coordinated by the Colombian writer Rosalba Suarez. Currently, he is a member of the “voces latinoamericanas” artist collective in Philadelphia. He has designed and published several plaquettes featuring his own poems as well as those poets such as León de Greiff, Roger Santivañez, Miguel Bacho, Roberto Bolaño, Coral Bracho, Pablo Neruda, Dylan Thomas, and Billy Collins. He is also the editor of the anthology of Latin American women poets, “Are These the Sweet Girls of Latin America?” In addition to being the co-founder of doslenguas press, he is also a member of the organizing committee of the Poetry Festival and the Latin American Book Fair in Philadelphia.
Johann Sarmiento-Klapper es, de profesión, investigador y diseñador de experiencias multi-modales, poeta, grabador, y hacedor de libros aficionado -entre otras cosas. Recibió su doctorado en Human-Computer Interaction / Socio-cultural System Design en la Universidad de Drexel. Miembro del colectivo “voces latinoamericanas” en Filadelfia. Originalmente de Bucaramanga, Colombia, formó parte del taller de poesía de la Universidad Industrial de Santander y participó en varios de los encuentros de poetas de Santander coordinados por la escritora colombiana Rosalba Suarez. Ha diseñado y publicado varios plaquettes con poemas propios y de otros poetas como León de Greiff, Roger Santivañez, Miguel Bacho, Roberto Bolaño, Coral Bracho, Pablo Neruda, Dylan Thomas, Billy Collins. También es editor de la antología de poetas mujeres latinoamericanas “¿Estas son las muchachas dulces de latinoamérica?”. Además de ser co-fundador de doslenguas press, es miembro del comité organizador del Festival de Poesía y de La Feria del Libro Latinoamericano en Filadelfia.
David
David Acosta is a poet, writer, and curator. His writings have appeared in numerous literary journals among them The Painted Bride Quarterly, The Evergreen Chronicles, The Americas Review, Mayrena, and the anthologies: American Poetry Confronts the 1990s (Black Tie Press 1990). The Limits of Silence (Asterion Press 1991), Poesida (Ollantay Press, 1995), and Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of Latin American Poetry in The United States (University of Washington Press, 1998) and Moonstone Press, among others.
He is co-editor along with Mia Kang of the Save China Town Poetry Anthology and a co-editor along with Ricardo Kerns, of the poetry anthology Under Fire, both published by Moonstone Press. He is also a founding member of the international artist collective Dissident Bodies, and the artist Collective Dislocada/Dislocated. He has curated numerous solo and group art exhibitions, directed live performance and video pieces for stage, video and film, and has collaborated with local and international visual and performing artists in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He is co-founder and Artistic Director for Casa de Duende in Philadelphia and is Co-Founder of doslenguas Press.
David Acosta es poeta, escritor y curador. Sus escritos han aparecido en numerosas revistas literarias, entre ellas The Painted Bride Quarterly, The Evergreen Chronicles, The Americas Review y Mayrena, así como en las antologías American Poetry Confronts the 1990s (Black Tie Press, 1990), The Limits of Silence (Asterion Press, 1991), Poesida (Ollantay Press, 1995) y Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of Latin American Poetry in The United States (University of Washington Press, 1998), además de publicaciones de Moonstone Press, entre otras.
Es coeditor, junto con Mia Kang, de la antología poética Save Chinatown y, junto con Ricardo Kerns, de la antología Under Fire; ambas publicadas por Moonstone Press. Asimismo, es miembro fundador del colectivo artístico internacional Dissident Bodies y del colectivo artístico Dislocada/Dislocated. Ha curado numerosas exposiciones de arte, tanto individuales como colectivas, ha dirigido espectáculos en vivo y obras audiovisuales para teatro, video y cine, y ha colaborado con artistas visuales y escénicos locales e internacionales en África, Europa, Asia y las Américas. Es cofundador y director artístico de Casa de Duende en Filadelfia y cofundador de doslenguas Press.