R240. Cat Painters: Contemporary Serbian Poetry in Translation

Supreme Court, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Thursday, February 9, 2017
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

The panelists, among seventy contemporary Serbian poets, appear in the anthology Cat Painters, which was co-edited by Biljana D. Obradović, who is one of its major translators, and Dubravka Djurić, and it is prefaced by Charles Bernstein. These accomplished Serbian and Serbian-American poets read from the anthology and also from their recently published books translated into English. These West-oriented poets look to the future and are not preoccupied with the past.


Participants

Moderator:

Biljana D. Obradović, Serbian-American poet, has authored three collections, the newest of which is Incognito; translated authors such as Gery, Kunitz, Weigl, de Rachewiltz, Osundare, Milanovic, and the anthology Cat Painters of Serbian Poetry; and teaches at Xavier University of LA in New Orleans.

Zvonko Karanović lives in Belgrade, Serbia. He has published numerous collections of poems influenced by Beat poetry, and prose poems influenced by surrealism. His selected poems, translated into English by Ana Božićević, It Was Easy to Set the Snow on Fire, was published in 2016 in the US.

Dubravka Djurić, a poet, critic, and associate professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications from Belgrade, Serbia. She published seven books of poetry and writes on Serbian and American poetry. She was one of the founders and editor of the magazine, ProFemina, and she started the AŽIN School.

Snezana Zabic is the author of the short story collection In a Lifetime, Po(jest)zija/Po(eat)ry (with Ivana Percl), and the memoir Broken Records. Her work appears in anthologies Discursive Bodies of Poetry and Wreckage of Reason 2: Back to the Drawing Board. She edits Packingtown Review.

Nenad Jovanović has published several collections of poems, stories, and plays, as well as a short novel. His most recent title is Niz gelender and his study Brechtian Cinemas is forthcoming.

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