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217 Thompson Street, Suite 353
New York, NY 10012 USA
http://www.rattapallax.com
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DONATE to: Rattapallax, Inc. is a not-for-profit publisher and film production company. It is the only literary organization dedicated to issues of globalization, literature, poetry and films. Our goals are to create international dialogue using literature and focus on what is relevant to our society. Your contribution will be tax-deductible; and receive a special gift. You can either make a check or money order payable to: Rattapallax. Our address is 217 Thompson Street, Suite 353, New York, NY 10012 USA. Or you can also make a donation by credit card at www.justgive.org or use Network for Good.
Rattapallax’s program are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Litwalks is funded by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the New York Council for the Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Other financial supporters include Asian American Arts Alliance, Theater Development Fund, Iran Heritage Foundation, Experimental TV, Australia Council for the Arts, and others.
STAFF
Ram Devineni is the editor and publisher of Rattapallax and a film-maker who has had films shown at the Cairo International Film Festival, San Jose Film Festival, Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, etc. He helped to create the Academia Internacional de Cinema in Sao Paulo, Brazil and is working on several feature films and documentaries.
Flávia Rocha (Editor) is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living in Brazil. In Sao Paulo, she worked as a staff reporter for magazines Casa Vogue, Carta Capital, República, Valor Econômico and Bravo!, and was a contributor for other publications, including MTV magazine, Vogue and Sabor. She has an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University and was the co-editor, with Edwin Torres, of Cities of Chance: an Anthology of New Poetry from the United States and Brazil. She co-founded Acedemia Internacional de Cinema in Brazil. Her first collection of poetry, The Blue House Around Noon was released by Travessa dos Editores in 2004.
Idra Novey’s (Editor) first book of poems The Next Country received the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. Her writing has appeared in Slate, A Public Space, The Paris Review, and The Believer. She’s received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and the PEN Translation Fund. Novey has taught in the Bard College Prison Initiative and at Columbia University, where she’s currently the director of Columbia’s Center for Literary Translation. A book of her translations of Brazilian poet Manoel de Barros, Birds for a Demolition, was released in 2010.
