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First Poetry & Poetics Workshop of Winter Quarter: Professor Kaneesha Parsard on Lalhibari Sharma (in collaboration with the Working Group on Contemporary Migration: Poetics, Theory, Practice)
Thursday, January 16 at 5pm in Rosenwald 405
Professor Kaneesha Parsard on Lalhibari Sharma
(in collaboration with the Working Group on Contemporary Migration: Poetics, Theory, Practice)
Please read the attached excerpt from Lalhibari Sharma’s I Even Regret Night in preparation for our discussion: Sharma, I Even Regret Night Holi Songs
Professor Kaneesha Parsard will concentrate her introduction on the two sections, “The Tale of Demarara” and “Demarara’s Condition” – the attached excerpt includes the further section, “Transliteration for Chauntal Singers” and the Translator’s Note as we thought these would also be interesting/useful
Refreshments will be provided, and the discussion is free and open to all. We hope to see you there!
Roy Chicky Arad: Monday Oct 21 4:30-6pm Midway 108
Please join us in welcoming Roy Chicky Arad to the Poetry & Poetics Workshop on Monday, October 21, 2019, at 4:30-6pm in Midway Studios 108.
Roy Chicky Arad is a poet, author, journalist, musician, and social activist from Tel Aviv, Israel. Aradpublished eight books of poetry and prose. and invented Kimo poetry, a hairy Hebrew version of Haiku. Additionally, he released seven musical albums. Arad is a journalist for Haaretz newspaper and from 2004, the editor of Maayan poetry, prose and ideas magazine, His book “The Israeli Dream” is hailed as “one of the ten greatest Hebrew books of the twenty-first century” (Mako). Culture Guerrilla group, which he co-founded, took poetry into Israeli streets and protests. He participates courtesy of Fulbright
This workshop is supported by the Council on Advanced Studies and The Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies