Reading and discussion

Event title to be announced

Simon Armitage
has published nine volumes of poetry including Killing Time, 1999 (Faber & Faber) and Selected Poems, 2001 (Faber & Faber) His most recent collections are The Universal Home Doctor and Travelling Songs, both published by Faber & Faber in 2002. He has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes and a Lannan Award.

Moderator: Mark Feeney
Boston Globe Living Arts Reporter and winner of the 2008 Pultizer Prize for criticism.

7:00 PM
Boston University Photonics Center
8 St. Mary's Street, 9th floor

Free and open to the public | Reception to follow

Co-sponsored by the University Professors Program, the Center for International Relations at Boston University and the literary journal AGNI | cooperation with the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and Zephyr Press

Funded by the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC

International Symposium

Event title to be announced

Ulrike Ottinger
German filmmaker, documentarian and photographer

6:00 PM
Location to be announced

Free and open to the public | Reception to follow at Goethe Institut Boston

Co-sponsored by the College of Communications at Boston University, the Goethe Instiut Boston, the Center for International Relations at Boston University, and the literary journal AGNI.

In cooperation with the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and Zephyr Press

Funded by the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC

Reading and discussion

Event title to be announced

Tomasz Salamun
Considered Slovenia's greatest living poet and one of the foremost figures of the Eastern European poetical avant-garde, Tomaz Salamun is revered by many American poets for his unique surrealistic style. His books have been translated in nineteen languages. His most recent collection in English is The Book for My Brother (Harcourt, 2006, translated by Christopher Merrill and others).

Moderator: Askold Melnyczuk
Founder and former editor of AGNI, professor at UMass Boston and in Bennington’s MFA program, and author of the new Europe-trotting, gripping, noirish family mystery The House of Widows

7:00 PM
Boston University Photonics Center
8 St. Mary's Street, 9th floor

Free and open to the public | Reception to follow

Co-sponsored by the University Professors Program, the Center for International Relations at Boston University and the literary journal AGNI.

In cooperation with the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and Zephyr Press

Funded by the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC