F164.
More Than Our Tongues: Women of Color Writing with Arabic, Chinese, and Korean
Friday, February 9, 2024
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
How do we decide when to fold in the language we grew up with in our poetry? What effects do the use of our “other” languages have, and what does it make possible? This often becomes a question of negotiation and balance. We’ll shift that paradigm into one that puts not the audience, but the poet first. We’ll discuss the joys and unanswered questions we have about this process, how we’ve learned and changed our view on this, and, of course, the delightful surprises that come along the way.
Participants
Su Cho (PhD/MFA/BA) is the author of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin, 2022), which won the National Poetry Series. Cho is an assistant professor at Clemson University.
Anni Liu is the author of Border Vista (Persea Books), which was a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2022. Born in the year of the goat and raised in libraries, she now edits prose at Graywolf Press.
Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland and the author of Another Way to Split Water (YesYes Books). She received an MFA from the University of Oregon, a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and she currently teaches creative writing at the University of Cambridge.
Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her books include O, Louder than Hearts, and To Live in Autumn. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Poetry, Ploughshares, and The Nation, among others. She's the cohost of Maqsouda, a podcast in Arabic about Arabic poetry.
