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SAA-uk joined Leeds Library in October 2014 for a day of culture to celebrate Black History Month. Presenting Bharatanatyam and Kathak dance, Indian classical music and poetry in Urdu and English.
Photos by Amardev Gahir
It’s not a pain, but still it hurts so much
My mind is trembling and something breaks again
Inside of me. It’s sore and raw to touch
My eyes and ears and limbs: they are the pain.
I could not feel, and now I pay for that.
Growing’s a dirty word, but grow I must.
I was the only player in this bet
I won and lose, and what I have is dust.
Mingled with tears, the dust becomes a clay
Pleasant to walk in, but hurtful to my feet.
I try to come out clean, but everyday
It climbs up to my ankles another bit.
Feeling it for the first time, sorrow can be delight.
But when it is a habit, it doesn’t kiss: it bites.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
theatre / performance art / poetry / installation / readings / documentary / creative writing / music
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Jaynee Bowker reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
The Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University presents the Stellar Alumni Reading Series, a mixed-genre reading of poetry and prose with Iliana Rocha (MFA 2008) and Vedran Husić (MFA 2013).
About the Authors
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and West Branch. Karankawa, her debut collection, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is available through the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo.
Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, won the St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. He has work published in The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.
ASU Tempe campus
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019
The Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University presents the Stellar Alumni Reading Series, a mixed-genre reading of poetry and prose with Iliana Rocha (MFA 2008) and Vedran Husić (MFA 2013).
About the Authors
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and West Branch. Karankawa, her debut collection, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is available through the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo.
Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, won the St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. He has work published in The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.
ASU Tempe campus
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
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By Ryan Johnston -
It’s so many things
Space and mountains, and memories
This story’s alive
These words, they read from you
And you decide
How they feel, after they’ve been used
It’s about your mind,
It’s a meteor, falling down
And what’s left, after?
Tasting today,
Sipping from the cup of yesterday
This world moves on,
And your little pond becomes a lake
And your memories,
They drown beneath the waves
I always pictured you, with them
Pulling down, pulling me under
Everytime I could catch my breath
Take some time,
You always wanted to get away
From the things you wouldn’t say
You asked me to wait
And I built this winter around that
Could have stood forever,
Could have never fallen down
To you, I was Just a shelter
Tear it down, make room
For your summer home
Spray paint the past
Cover it up with black,
Your mirror, and all the
Things in your life
That cause you to reflect
Because you should have seen it
Because you should have known
That one day, you could get, so gone
It’s drifty, hazy
Changing like a dream
Like waking up on the wrong day
Waking up, somebody else
I get the feeling that I’ve been sick
If only all the good things
Were that easy to catch
You make it real
What you lost, you pacified in the end
If only you would just…
Someday, we’ll all be better than this
And they’ll let us outside again
Finding you, in the Summertime grass
In a future, that’s nothing but the past
We had the lethal pills. The world at end
Did not give us the time to say goodbye.
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends,
We put our pets to sleep, we did misspend
The precious moments, hoping to deny
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
I had no strength and no way to suspend
This condemnation. I muttered my outcry
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends.
You were at home. Your travel case at hand,
Calmly you folded clothes, your eyes dry:
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
“I’m leaving. There’s no reason to expend
What’s left in here: so hurry, we must fly.”
Thinking of ourselves, not of our friends,
We had the lethal pills the world to end.
(Villanelle by SiRiChandra)
Santorini!
Where the sun is always shining,
Where the sea is always purring.
Where the girls are wearing short short dresses,
Where the tourists are having long long nights,
Where the barkeepers mix strong strong shots,
Where the greek coffee is hot hot at the bar.
Where every restaurant offers good food,
Where everybody is in a good mood!
Jaynee Bowker reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
Sydney Bieber reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
Join writer Femi Martin, a judge of English PEN’s recent Made Up Words competition, and have a go at writing amazing letters to your friends, or why not make your own dictionary of made-up words? Or come along to poet Zena Edwards’s poetry and philosophy workshops for all!
Image: ‘English PEN Workshops, Siah Armajani: An Ingenious World, Courtesy of Parasol unit, 2013’
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
Sydney Bieber reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
On 3 July 2018, participants of English PEN's Brave New Voices programme came together for a special celebration event. The evening marked the launch of latest anthology The Future House with readings from the book.
Brave New Voices is English PEN's ongoing creative writing outreach programme for young people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.
Photo: Suzi Corker
Natalie Diaz reading from her poetry.
The ASU Department of English celebrated our 2017-2018 graduates and award-winners! Our featured speaker was assistant professor Natalie Diaz, who performed a reading from her poetry.
Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.
May 8th, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
theatre / performance art / poetry / installation / readings / documentary / creative writing / music
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Κύπρου 91Α & Σικίνου 35Α, 11361, Κυψέλη, Αθήνα / 91Α Kyprou & 35Α Sikinou, 11361, Athens
Τ: (00 30) 213 00 40 496 || Mobile: (00 30) 69.45.34.84.45
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SAA-uk joined Leeds Library in October 2014 for a day of culture to celebrate Black History Month. Presenting Bharatanatyam and Kathak dance, Indian classical music and poetry in Urdu and English.
Photos by Amardev Gahir
The sea was soaking wet, a hard round board
Wrapped in crushed tinfoil, uneaten pie
Of yesterday’s big party. I stood on ward
Bearing the trampling thunder of the sky
While barring ears to sound, my flesh sandstone,
Clenching my chapped lips against the frost.
The surface than went mad. Lightning ozone
And coils of rippling scales climbed to the coast:
It was then I perceived the monster’s back
- Only a hint of spiky silver mane -
As if leaning its head over, to check
Who was around. It sailed for its domain.
The pewter coated surface fell down in metal plates
Roaring and spilling over the latch of the floodgates.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
theatre / performance art / poetry / installation / readings / documentary / creative writing / music
Πολυχώρος Κέντρο Ελέγχου Τηλεοράσεων / TV Control Center
Κύπρου 91Α & Σικίνου 35Α, 11361, Κυψέλη, Αθήνα / 91Α Kyprou & 35Α Sikinou, 11361, Athens
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