Writers in the Library will feature poetry with a French flavor on Wednesday, October 5. Poets reading from their works at 7 p.m. in the Hodges Library Auditorium on the UT campus will include J. Bradford Anderson, Darren Jackson, Marilyn Kallet, and Rose Becallo Raney. A mystery guest will open the show. Following the readings, French snacks will be on offer in the Mary Greer Room (next to Starbucks).<\/p>\n
J. Bradford Anderson studied at the Sorbonne and received his PhD in comparative literature from Yale University. He translated Alexander von Humboldt\u2019s Political Essay on the Island of Cuba<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2011). His translations of Chantal Bizzini\u2019s poetry have appeared in Two Lines: A Journal of Translation<\/em>, and he is currently translating the poems of Georges Schehad\u00e9, the Franco-Lebanese writer.<\/p>\n Darren Jackson, editor of Grist: The Journal for Writers<\/em>, is a doctoral student in poetry at UT Knoxville. His poetry has appeared in the journals Smartish Pace<\/em>, Iron Horse<\/em>, and Terrain<\/em>, among others. His essay on translating Michaux\u2019s La vie dans les plis<\/em> was published by Public Republic. He is currently co-translating Chantal Bizzini\u2019s poetry.<\/p>\n Marilyn Kallet is the director of UT\u2019s Creative Writing Program and the author of 15 books, including Packing Light: New and Selected Poems<\/em>. Her PhD is in comparative literature from Rutgers. She also studied at the Sorbonne, and her translations from the French include The Big Game<\/em>, by Benjamin P\u00e9ret, and Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard<\/em>, from Black Widow Press.<\/p>\n Rose Becallo Raney is a science and technical writer who has won the Tennessee Writers Alliance prize in poetry. She received her MA in creative writing\/poetry at UT.<\/p>\n The readers are all past participants in the \u201cO Taste and See\u201d poetry workshop taught by Marilyn Kallet for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, in Auvillar, France.<\/p>\n Read what Marilyn Kallet says about the art of translation on CHAPTER 16: A COMMUNITY OF TENNESSEE WRITERS, READERS & PASSERBY: www.chapter16.org\/content\/putting-mustache-mona-lisa<\/a><\/p>\n Writers in the Library is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of the University of Tennessee English Department in association with the UT Libraries.<\/p>\n For more information, contact Marilyn Kallet, Director, UT Creative Writing Program, mkallet@utk.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"