Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort in NYC, 9/25,9/26

[Curt F. Woolhiser]

Dear SEELANGers:

I was asked to pass on the following information about some upcoming readings
by the Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort in NYC:

>Valzhyna Mort will be reading Sunday September 25th, 2005 at 8 PM at the
>Cloister Cafe, 238 East 9th St. along with poets Ange Mlinko and Anne Boyer,

>and Monday, September 26th, 2005 at 7:30 PM at the KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St.
>along with Eva Salzman

>If you are at all familiar with Valzhyna's work, I'm certain you can
>appreciate our passion to introduce her to the American poetry circle. If
>you're able to assist in diseminating this information or can direct me to
>one who can, please contact me at your earliest convenience.

>Thank you so much!

>Timothy J. Fitzmaurice
>Blue Flower Arts
>
>

>VALZHYNA MORT, POET

>"Valzyhna Mort...can justly be described as a risen star of the
>international poetry world. Her poems have something of the incantatory
>quality of poets such as Dylan Thomas or Allen Ginsberg. But she is a true
>original."
>? Kevin Higgins, Cuirt International Festival of Literature

>"In the searing work of Valzhyna Mort, marvelously different in form and in
>delivery...dazzled all who were fortunate to hear her translations, and to
>be battered by the moods of the Belarus language which she is passionately
>battling to save from obscurity." - The Irish Times
>
>
>At 23, a poet and translator, Valzhyna's work has been translated into many
>European languages and published in various literary magazines and
>anthologies, including an Anthology of Belarusian Poetry (Sofia, 2002). She
>is famed throughout Europe for her remarkable reading performances, which
>display a talent not normally associated with one so young. She is the
>winner of several poetry competitions in Belarus, and in 2004 she received
>the Crystal of Velenica Award in Slovenia, which is awarded for reading
>performance. Valzhyna's first collection, I'm as Thin as Your Eyelashes
>(2005), is startlingly assured and reveals a powerful poetic voice. She is
>the 2005 recipient of the Gaude Polonia stipendium. She currently lives in
>the United States.
>
>
>  Valzhyna writes in Belarusian at a time when efforts are being made to
>reestablish the traditional language, after governmental attempts to absorb
>it into the Russian language have been relinquished.  She reads her poems
>aloud in both Belarusian and English.
>
>
>  "Valzhyna Mort is electrifying." - Franz Wright


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Curt F. Woolhiser
Preceptor in Slavic Languages
Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Harvard University
12 Quincy St., Barker Center
Cambridge, MA 02138-3879 USA

Tel. (617) 495-3528
Fax (617) 496-4466
email: cwoolhis at fas.harvard.edu
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