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11 AM - 12:15 PM
poet and novelist MARILYN CHIN
This event is made possible in part by the generosity of WACC, the World Arts and Cultures Committee of şÚ°µ±¬ÁĎAPP.
An internationally acclaimed poet, translator, and novelist, MARILYN CHIN makes her first return to the LAF since 2010 to read from her recently released and highly acclaimed new collection, A Portrait of the Self As Nation: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2018). The event will conclude with opportunities for Q&A and book signings by the author. (Copies of Chin's books will be available for purchase before and after her reading.)
About the Author
Hong Kong born, Marilyn Chin was and raised in Portland, Oregon and is a University of Iowa MFA graduate, where she would later teach in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She has since co-directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University.
In addition to having authored her offbeat coming-of-age novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (W. W. Norton, 2009), Chin has published several acclaimed collections of poetry,
including Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (W. W. Norton, 2002); The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty (Milkweed Editions, 1994), Dwarf Bamboo (Greenfiled Review Press, 1987), and the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner, Hard Love Province (W.W. Norton, 2014). Her latest, A Portrait of the Self As Nation, is a "greatest hits" collection representing the span of her distinguished career
as well as new works that include feminist manifestos, love lyrics, political proclamations,
and rebellion. “My poems are rebellious….It’s important for poets to be rebellious.
I always want to disrupt things and do my own thing. Rebellion is part of being a
good artist.” Frequently included in popular literature anthologies such as The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Chin is widely known for her critique of hyphenated cultural attributions and, in
1995, was invited by Bill Moyers to speak on identity and duality for an episode of
his series, The Language of Life.Chin is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards for her poetry and translations,
including the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, the United Artist Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, two National Endowment
for the Arts fellowships, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, as well as five separate
Pushcart Prizes.
Now a professor emerita at San Diego State University, last year, in 2018, Marilyn Chin was elected to the position of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
RESOURCES
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Poetry
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A Portrait of the Self As Nation: New and Selected Poems. W. W. Norton, 2018. |
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Hard Love Province. W.W. Norton, 2014. ISBN: 978-0393351811 |
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Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. W. W. Norton, 2002. ISBN: 978-0393324532 |
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The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty. Milkweed Editions, 1994. ISBN: 978-0915943876 |
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Dwarf Bamboo. Greenfield Review Press, 1987. ISBN: 978-0912678719 |
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Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. W. W. Norton, 2009. |
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Edited Anthologies |
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Poetics of the Body: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ISBN: 978-1349383078 |
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Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. Ed. Marilyn Chin and Victoria M. Chang. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0252071744 |
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Dissident Song: A Contemporary Asian Anthology. Ed. Marilyn Chin and DavidWong Louie. Quarry West, 1991. |
Translations |
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Qing, Ai. The Selected Poems of Ai Qing. Trans. Marilyn Chin and Eugene Eoyang. 1985. |
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Yoshimasu, Gōzō. Devil’s Wind: A Thousand Steps or More. Trans. Marilyn Chin. Oakland University Press, 1980 |
AUTHOR LINKS
- official website:
- Poetry Foundation:
- Academy of American Poets:
SELECTED WRITINGS ABOUT MARILYN CHIN
- Bialosky, Jill. "A Portrait of the Self as Nation: A Craft Talk with Marilyn Chin." Poets House 15 November 2018. Dodge Poetry. "Ask a Poet: Marilyn Chin." Interview. The Dodge Blog 17 August 2018.
- Green, Anne Elizabeth. “Marilyn Chin.” in Contemporary Women Poets. Ed., Pamela L. Shelton. St. James Press, 1998. ISBN: 978-1558623569
- Hsiao, Irene. "Elegies, Allergies, and Other Elusions: Marilyn Chin Talks Hard Love." Interview. Los Angeles Review of Books 3 April 2015. !
- Licad, Abigail. "Of Grievance and Grief: Marilyn Chin." The Critical Flame: A Journal of Literature and Culture no. 31 (July-August 2014).
- Turner, Anastasia. "An Interview with Marilyn Chin." American Book Review. vol. 35, no. 3 (March/April 2014).
- Wager, Jason. “Marilyn Chin” in The Chronicle (Duke University) March 26 1999.
- Wojcik, Emily. "10 Questions for Marilyn Chin." The Massachusetts Review 28 December 2018.
- Yau, John. "Marilyn Chin: Poet, Translator, Provocateur." Hyperallergic 27 July 2014.
SELECTED MEDIA
American Book Review Spring 2014 Reading Series. "Marilyn Chin." YouTube. American Book Review, 1 December 2015. Readings included: "How I Got That Name," "Blues on Yellow," "25 Haiku," "Parable of the Cake," "Cougars Anonymous," and "Cicada." Duration: 31:50.
Marilyn Chin Channel. YouTube.
Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center. "Life of a Poet: Marilyn Chin." YouTube. Library of Congress, 30 January 2019. Duration: 59:36.
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Zalaznick Reading Series (Cornell University). "Reading by Poet and Writer Marilyn Chin." YouTube. Cornell University English Dept., 12 November 2015. Duration: 47:14.
7-9 PM
poet ILYA KAMINSKY
This event is made possible in part by the generosity of WACC, the World Arts and Cultures Committee of şÚ°µ±¬ÁĎAPP.
Poet Ilya Kaminsky comes to Griffin Gate to read selections from his acclaimed first collection, Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press 2004) and his newly released followup collection, Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press 2019), from which selected poems have already been awarded the coveted Pushcart Prize. Following the reading, guests will be provided opportunities for Q&A and book signings. (Copies of Ilya Kaminsky's books will be available for purchase before and after his reading.)
About the Author
Born in Odessa in the former Soviet Union, in 1993 Kaminsky was granted asylum with
his family in the U.S. About exile, Kaminsky states, it "is good for you if you are
a poet. It teaches you that loss is also a gain. Of course, it teaches you that by
beating you with a hammer on your head. You see your life from a distance; your days
become your own commandments. You learn how to start your life anew."
Kaminsky suffered dramatic hearing loss at a young age, the theme of which weaves through the poems of his two major collections and is the inspiration for the title of his latest release. Will Brewbaker of Los Angeles Review of Books applauds Deaf Republic as demonstrating a "complicated relationship with silence [which] allows Kaminsky to define deafness not in relation to hearing but rather on its own terms. In a book about power and its abuse, this point is worth taking seriously. Kaminsky demands that we reevaluate our own language — about deaf culture, about silence itself — in a time when language in the larger, cultural public square has never been more vitriolic."
Named Best Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord Magazine, Dancing In Odessa is the winner of the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, Poetry magazine’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize. Short-listed for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize and awarded the Lannan Foundation’s Literary Fellowship, Kaminsky is also the editor of the Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (HarperCollins 2010), and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books 2012). The author of numerous internationally published and translated works, Kaminsky also regularly appears in Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies.
Ilya Kaminsky has worked as a law clerk for San Francisco Legal Aid and the National Immigration Law Center, as well as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Orphaned Children in Southern California. He is currently a professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.
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BOOKS
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Deaf Republic. Graywolf Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1555978310 |
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Dancing In Odessa. Tupelo Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-1932195125. |
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Author’s Prayer. Broadside. Trans., Polina Barskova. Tupelo Press, 2011. |
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Musica Humana. Chapiteau Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-1931498326 |
Edited Anthologies and Translations |
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Kaminsky, Ilya and Katherine Fowler. A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith. Tupelo Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1932195194 |
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Kaminsky, Ilya and Jean Valentine. Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. Alice James Books, 2012. ISBN: 978-1882295944 |
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Kaminsky, Ilya and Susan Harris, eds. The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. Ecco, 2010. ISBN: 978-0061583247 |
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Kaminsky, Ilya and G.C. Waldrep. Homage to Paul Celan. Marick Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1934851357 |
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Kaminsky, Ilya, Katie Farris, and Valzhyna Mort. Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose. Tupelo Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1936797479 |
AUTHOR LINKS
- official website:
- Poetry Foundation:
- Academy of American Poets:
- Graywolf Press:
- Tupelo Press:
- Shipman Agency:
SELECTED WORKS BY ILYA KAMINSKY
- Eight poems from Deaf Republic. Massachusetts Review vol. 59 no. 1 (Winter 2002).
- "A Lyric Voice: A Lyric Essay on Osip Mandelstam." Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Art vol. 26, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2014).
- "That Map of Bone and Opened Valves." Kenyon Review Winter 2009.
- "Musica Humana: An Elegy for Osip Mandelstam." Poetry International Rotterdam.
- Nine poems by Ilya Kaminsky. Adirondack Review vol. 3, no. 2 (Winter 2002). http://www.theadirondackreview.com/featuredkaminsky.html
- "Searching for a Lost Odessa—and a Deaf Childhood." New York Times Magazine 9 August 2018.
- Selections from Deaf Republic. Poetry vol. 194, no. 2, May 2009.
SELECTED WORKS ABOUT ILYA KAMINSKY
- Brewbaker, Will. "Silence That Is Not Silence: On Ilya Kaminsky’s 'Deaf Republic.'" Los Angeles Review of Books 8 March 2019.
- Clifford, Edward. "(Not Quite) 10 Questions for Ilya Kaminsky." Interview. The Massachusetts Review 21 May 2018.
- Hirshfield, Jane. "Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky." Review. Ploughshares no. 99 (Spring 2006).
- McHenry, Eric. "Ilya Kaminsky's Poetry Turns His Losses into Gifts to Readers." Review. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) 9 September 2004.
- Ryor, Colleen Marie. "Interview with Ilya Kaminsky." Adirondack Review vol. 3, no. 2 (Winter 2002).
- "The Sunlight of Odessa: Poet Ilya Kaminsky." Centrum: Creativity in Community 1 August 2008.
- Timpane, John. "In His Memories of Odessa, A Poet Pays Tribute to His Forebears." Review. Philadelphia Inquirer 2 June 2004.
SELECTED MEDIA
"Ilya Kaminsky - NPF [New Play Festival] 2018." Vimeo. Duration: 15:47.
UC Berkeley Events. "Lunch Poems—Ilya Kaminsky." YouTube. Posted 8 October 2008. Duration: 42:46.
Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard University). "Deaf Republic: A Performance by Ilya Kaminsky." YouTube. Posted 7 March 2019. Duration: 01:00:43.
University of Chicago. "The Offen Poetry Prize Reading featuring Ilya Kaminsky." YouTube. Posted 29 November 2012. Duration: 36:22.