Dear Friends: I want to announce a new
workshop/retreat in Brazil. More information at
http://www.creativewritingbrazil.org


EDWARD HIRSCH will be teaching at the creative writing
workshop in Brazil from July 9-16, 2007.
Participate in a week-long poetry workshop with Edward
Hirsch and a translation class on Brazilian poets
Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Joao Cabral de Melo
Neto. Discussions on Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and
tours of important cultural sites and literary
landmarks. Also, casual get togethers with leading
contemporary Brazilian poets, editors, writers,
translators, and publishers. 

Creative Writing Brazil is an unique literary workshop
in Sao Paulo, Brazil organized by Rattapallax magazine
and Academia Interncional de Cinema. The workshops are
run by leading American and Brazilian poets, writers
and educators and conducted in English. The purpose of
the workshop is to experience the culture of Brazil
and produce new and complex literary work. Poets and
writers who have participated in our trips to Brazil
include Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa,
Breytan Breytanbach, Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia
Vicuna, Edwin Torres, Nathalie Handal, and Poetry
Wales editor Robert Minhinnick.

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Edward Hirsch is a poet and critic. He has published
six books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild
Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics
Circle Award, The Night Parade (1989), Earthly
Measures (1994), On Love (1998), and Lay Back the
Darkness (2003). He has also written four prose books:
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
(1999), a national bestseller, Responsive Reading
(1999), The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the
Source of Artistic Inspiration (2002), and Poet's
Choice (2006). He is the editor of Transforming
Vision: Writers on Art (1994) and Theodore Roethke's
Selected Poems (2005). He is also the co-editor of A
William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations
(2004). He has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He
taught for eighteen years at the University of
Houston, and is now the fourth president of the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil

Elizabeth Bishop lived in Brazil more or less
continuously from 1951 to 1966 and then intermittently
to 1971. The country functioned as a necessary escape
from the deprived and anxious world of her early
childhood. Creative Writing Brazil will have a
discussion about Bishop's life and work in Brazil. We
can also assist you with your travel plans to visit
Elizabeth Bishop's house in Ouro Preto and other noted
Bishop landmarks in Brazil. Also, introduce you to
renowned Bishop scholars and translators of her work.
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Tour of Sao Paulo & Salon Reading

Throughout the week, everyone will be having casual
get togethers with leading Brazilian poets, editors,
writers, and publishers. An important aspect of the
workshop is an interaction between participants and
their contemporary counterparts in Brazil. You will
visit important cultural sites, bookstores, and
literary landmarks. All participants will have an
opportunity to read at the Salons in Sao Paulo and New
York City. Also, Rattapallax magazine will assist with
the publication of the work produced during the
workshops in literary and online journals.
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Festa Literaria Internacional de Parati (FLIP) 

FLIP is a leading and truly international literary
jamborees, known for the outstanding quality of its
guest authors, for the overwhelming enthusiasm of its
audiences, and for the town's relaxed hospitality.
FLIP has continued to attract some of the world's
finest authors including Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo,
Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Paul
Auster, Michael Ondaatje, alongside living Brazilian
legends such as Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso. The
festival is held in Parati is a colonial sea-side town
nestled between the turquoise waters of Ilha Grande
Bay and vast swathes of unspoilt Atlantic rainforest.
Only a few hours from Sao Paulo.

Attend the Creative Writing Workshop and FLIP! We plan
to organize a trip to FLIP and will help you with your
travel plans to the festival. Must register early
because the festival sells out. 

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