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Dear Friends: EDWARD HIRSCH will be teaching at the creative writing workshop in Brazil from July 9-16, 2007. Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, Alan Pauls e Rodrigo Fresan, and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams & Amores Peros) are headlining FLIP this year. Sign-up now and get a 30% discount on tuition. 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. MORE INFORMATION AT http://www.creativewritingbrazil.org/ ----- 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. 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. ---- Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil. Lecture by Paulo Henriques Britto 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. Paulo Henriques Britto was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. His third collection of poems, Trovar Claro, received Brazil's equivalent of the National Book Award from the Biblioteca Nacional, and his fourth book, Macau, won Brazil's most prestigious award, the Portugal Telecom Prize. In 2005, he published his first short story collection, Paraisos artificiais. Britto is also one of Brazil's principle translators of British and American literature, and received the National Library Foundation's prize for his 1995 translation of E. L. Doctorow's The Waterworks. His other translations include works by Henry James, V. S. Naipaul, Thomas Pynchon, Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop's poems about Brazil. He currently teaches at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. ---- Translation Workshop Translation class on Brazilian poets Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Joao Cabral de Melo Neto lead by Flavia Rocha. Flavia Rocha is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living in Brazil. In Sao Paulo, she worked as a staff reporter for magazines Casa Vogue, Carta Capital, Republica, Valor Economico and Bravo!. She has an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University and is the editor of Rattapallax magazine. Her first collection of poetry, The Blue House Around Noon was released by Travessa dos Editores in 2004. Her translations of contemporary American and Brazilian poets have appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, Callaloo, Rattapallax, and Poetry Wales. ----- 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. ---- Festa Literaria Internacional de Parati (FLIP) Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, Alan Pauls e Rodrigo Fresan, and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams & Amores Peros) are headlining FLIP this year. 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. Please send future emails to [log in to unmask] for press