“Ernesto Cardenal is a major epic-historical poet, in the grand lineage of Central American prophet Rubén Darío.” —Allen Ginsberg

Rev. Ernesto Cardenal will read from his new book, Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 PM at the U-M Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery – Room 100.

Rev. Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. Revolutionary activist, disciple of omas Merton, Roman Catholic priest, founder of the contemplative commune Our Lady of Solentiname, ambassador for the Sandinistas, Minister of Culture in post-Somoza Nicaragua, andco-founder of the international cultural center House of Three Worlds, Cardenal, on his eightieth birthday, was given the nation’s highest cultural honor, the Order of Ruben Darío, by President Enrique Bolaños in 2005. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Download the flier.

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