Please join me in celebrating the launch of Eternities (Bitter Oleander Press), my translation of Nobel-Prize-Winner Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Eternidades. On Tuesday, May 5th, at 7:00pm, in the Living Room of the Tranzac Club, I will read from the book and take part in a conversation with my dear friend, fellow poet and translator Beatriz Hausner.
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Book Launch, Eternities
A.F. Moritz in Conversation with Beatriz Hausner
Tuesday, May 5
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Tranzac Club, Living Room
292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Free Event, Accessible Venue
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This event is free and open to the public, and the venue is accessible. Books will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments may be purchased at the adjoining bar and brought into the Living Room. Capacity is Limited, so please do RSVP to confirm your place.
About the Book
Written in 1916 and 1917 and published in 1918 by Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez, Eternities is one of the foundational books of modern Spanish literature and of the modernist period. A.F. Moritz presents a masterful translation of Jiménez’s landmark collection.
About the Speakers
Beatriz Hausner was born in Chile and immigrated to Canada with her family when she was a teenager. She has published many poetry books, including She Who Lies Above (2023), Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020) Enter the Raccoon (2012), Sew Him Up (2010), and The Wardrobe Mistress (2004). Her prose and poetry have been published in many chapbooks and included in several anthologies, and her books have been published internationally and translated into several languages, including her native Spanish, French, Dutch, and Greek. She is an active participant in the international surrealist movement, and a respected historian and translator of Latin American surrealism. Hausner, who is trilingual, served three terms as President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and was Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission. She was also a founding publisher of Quattro Books. Hausner lives in Toronto where she organizes the Soluble Fish lecture series.
A.F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry, most recently, The Wren (2026), Great Silent Ballad (2024), As Far As You Know (2020) and The Sparrow (2018). Moritz served as the sixth Poet Laureate of Toronto, from March 2019 to May 2023. He also served for more than a decade as the Goldring Professor of the Arts and Society at Victoria University at the University of Toronto. Moritz has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He is the winner of the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize, the 2009 Griffin Prize, and the 2005 ReLit Award for poetry as well as a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award. An avid translator, Moritz’s most recent work is Eternities (2026), his translation of Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Eternidades. He has also translated the work of Spanish-language poets Ludwig Zeller and Gilberto Meza and is at work on a major translation of the French poet and philosopher, Jacques Ellul.
