Reading and discussion

(Dis)locations: Poetry and Place

Tomaz 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 most recent collection in English is The Book for My Brother (Harcourt, 2006, translated by Christopher Merrill and others).

Moderator: David Rivard
Poetry Editor at the Harvard Review; author of Bewitched Playground (2000), Wise Poison (1996), and Torque (1987)

7:00 PM
Barrister's Hall
Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue, 1st floor

Free and open to the public | Reception to follow

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

Funded by the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC, with additional support from the Boston University Humanities Foundation

Lecture and Conversation

Art, Trauma, and Democracy: Immigrants and Veterans

Krzysztof Wodiczko
was born in Warsaw, Poland, and lives and works in New York and Cambridge. Since 1980, he has created more than seventy large-scale slide and video projections of politically-charged images on architectural façades and monuments worldwide. By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history.

Moderator: Mark Feeney
Boston Globe Living Arts Reporter and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer 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 Center for International Relations at Boston University and the literary journal AGNI | In cooperation with the Polish American Networking Organization (PANO) of New England, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and Zephyr Press

Funded by the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC