Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, a Hermitage Artist Retreat fellow, will be reading his poetry and singing at 2pm Sunday, December 16, 2012 in a free program at Bookstore 1 on Main Street in Sarasota.

In his native Brazil, Rodrigo is a poet, songwriter, journalist, fiction writer, and translator. He has published five collections of poetry, including Solarium (1994), Polivox (2001) and N�mada (2004). His poems, essays and interviews have been widely published and anthologized, including in Os Cem Melhores Poemas Brasileiros do S�culo 20 (The Best 100 Brazilian Poems of the Twentieth Century). His second CD, Can��es do Est�dio Realidade (Songs from Reality Studio), a new book of poems and a first novel, the detective story O Trovador (The Troubadour) are forthcoming in 2013. He translates from the English (Whitman, Laura Riding, Plath) and from the French (Rimbaud, Apollinaire). A freelance journalist and translator, he co-edits the arts magazine Coyote; he also performs his poems and songs regularly around Brazil.