BY HELEN MEYERS
CHICAGO - Norberto Codina, editor of La Gaceta de Cuba, has
been invited to speak on university campuses in several U.S.
cities this fall. La Gaceta, published by the Union of Writers
and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), is the foremost journal of arts and
letters in Cuba.
Codina, who is also an award-winning poet, will be speaking on the topics of art, literature, and culture in Cuba today. On two previous visits to the United States, he gave well-attended lectures at campuses in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
The Cuban editor will attend the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference taking place in Chicago September 24-26. Codina will then speak in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Chicago.
In New York, for example, he will be speaking at Hostos Community College. Professors and students at the University of Minnesota are planning a meeting for him that is sponsored by six academic departments and the College of Liberal Arts.
Lectures are also planned at the University of California at Berkeley; Emerson College and Tufts University in Boston; and DePaul University in Chicago. Dr. Félix Masud-Piloto, Director of the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University is coordinating his speaking engagements in collaboration with professors at the other campuses.
Poetry readings, lectures at cultural institutions, and meetings with other supporters of the arts are also being organized. For further information on Codina's speaking engagements, call (773) 325-7316.