Document Type
Grant Application
Project/Presentation Title
Participants
see attached
Date
12-2013
Project Period
FY 2013-2014
Event Sponsor
Cultural Affairs/ Distinguished Lecture Series
Project Abstract/ Summary
The spring 2014 line-up will feature seven writers-four poets, two fiction writers, and a playwright-in CA/DlS-supported events. As the brief biographies appended to this letter demonstrate, the writers we propose to bring to campus represent a wide range of literary activity and achievement. We are focusing on the art of translation this spring and are proud to include writers in several genres (including our first playwright in some time) who, in addition to doing their own work, have also brought works from German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish to the attention of American readers. A secondary focus of our programming-carried over from two tremendously successful events with Jaap Blonk in the fall-is "sound poetry," as represented by the artistic and scholarly practices of Christine Hume and Tracie Monis. Poet and translator Rosa Alcalá appeared in the New Writing Series in spring 2004; otherwise, all the invited writers will be making their Orono débuts.
Repository Citation
English Department, "Spring 2014 New Writing Series" (2013). Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series. 307.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ca-lectureseries/307
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