Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (Londrina, Parana state) is a Brazilian poet, fiction writer, musician, composer, and translator. He has published five collections of poetry, including "Visibilia," (1996), "Polivox" (2001), "Nômada" (2004), and "Reality Studio" (2013). His poems, essays and interviews have been widely published and anthologized, including in Os Cem Melhores Poemas Brasileiros do Século 20 [The Best 100 Brazilian Poems of the Twentieth Century]. His second CD, "Canções do Estúdio Realidade" [Songs from Reality Studio), a new book of poems and the detective story O Trovador [The Troubadour]. He translates from the English (Whitman, Laura Riding, Plath) and from the French (Rimbaud, Apollinaire). From 1990 to 1992, Garcia Lopes lived in the U.S, where he obtained a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities (dissertation on American writer William Burroughs) at Arizona State University. During that time, he gathered 19 interviews with American poets, writers, artists and critics, including John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Marjorie Perloff, Allen Ginsberg, Nam June Paik, Charles Bernstein and John Cage for his book Vozes & Visões (Voices & Visions, published in 1996). In 1994 he released his first collection of poems, Solarium (poems 1984-1994), as well as a new translation of Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations A freelance journalist and translator, he co-edits the arts magazine Coyote; he also performs his poems and songs regularly around Brazil. In 2012 he was selected to represent Brazil in the International Writing Program at University of Iowa (USA). In 2012 he was selected for residency at The Hermitage Artist Retreat.
Rodrigo Garcia Lopes
Studios
Barnard
Rodrigo Garcia Lopes worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…