Welsh author Fflur Dafydd discusses the difference between expression in Welsh and English, contrasting the often euphemistic nature of Welsh with the more straightforward character of English. She then gives examples of how a novel she wrote in...
Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates Shane McCrae and Carmen Giménez Smith read from their recent books of poetry. Whiting Award-winner Shane McCrae reads from Blood, his new book of poetry from Noemi Press. He is the author of a previous book of...
Christopher Merrill introduces Edward Hirsch who reads his poem 'Krackow 6 A.M.' Hirsch discusses the history of arguments against poetry such as that of Plato's. Hirsch believes that poetry uses fiction in order to tell the truth and that poetry...
Peter Nazareth introduces Christine Craig and Arto Kytohonka. He mentions that this is the first "open mike" session. Christine Craig reads poems about her home nation, Jamaica. She describes the physical, economical, and cultural landscape of that...
International authors and filmmakers meet to discuss their perspectives on translating writing into film and television. Lou Ye experiments with how changing the delivery of message changes the thoughts that get delivered. Rafael Courtoisie's talk...
Leopoldo Brizuela says the way his imagination works is "not on reality itself, but on representation of reality: moreover, not on the words or images that represent reality, but on their silences, on their voids." Jeong Han-Yong applies the topic...
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Five 1995 IWP authors briefly discuss a few books they have written. First, Larry Thomas a playwright from Fiji discusses a collection of three plays written between 1989 and 1991; "Outcasts" "Yours Dearly and Men, Women" and "Insanity." He then...
A panel made up of unidentified participants discusses many aspects of translation. Among the subjects discussed are the effects of translating poetry, the lack of female poets in translation and the translation of work from developing nations. The...
Don Share, senior editor at Poetry Magazine, reads from his work. He reads from his most recent collection of poems, Wishbone, as well as from The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine which he co-edited with Christian...
Poets Sally Keith and Dan Beachy-Quick read from their work. Sally Keith's most recent book is Fact of the Matter. Moving from the mundane to the profound, first through observation of fact and matter, then shifting perspective, engaging a deeper...
Marvin Bell talks about the relationship between nature and poetry. The next speaker, Polish poet Adriana Szymanska, discusses nature and poetry in the urban world. Monica Velásquez Guzmán, Arturo Gutiérrez, and Muhammad Mutawalli each briefly...