The program sure looks interesting. I'd love to hear Adonis.
But I got a leetle cross reading the conference bumpf. Like a lot of
these kinds
of things claiming to range "across the globe", it clearly doesn't. "Globe"
includes more than Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Thinking of one of the oldest continuous poetic traditions, in China,
let alone
so many others.
Just as discussion of Australian poetry recently petered out, it seems the
so-called East, let alone South, is largely invisible, still. Don't these
people have maps? Oh, I forgot - US-Brit-Eurocentrism is still alive and well.
But so's the elsewheres. And we have maps.
Cheers and hello from an elsewhere,
Jill
Quoting Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
> I thought the details of this symposium would be of interest. Can't decide
> exactly which events I'll attend, other than the reading by Semezdin
> Mehmedinovic and Ammiel Alcalay, both of whom impressed me to the point of
> wanting to follow their work during the one live presentation by each I was
> able to witness in the past.
>
> Barry
>
> http://english.georgetown.edu/Lannan/symposium/symposium_events.htm
>
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