You're invited to join UConn Creative Writing on Tuesday, October 24 for a double-header with poet, translator and scholar Ana BožiÄ�eviÄ�!
12:30-3 pm: Pizza + A Walk on the Inside (Stern Lounge, Austin 217)
In this open writing workshop, we'll eat pizza, then embark upon a poetic journey of remembering and observing the many worlds we inhabit in daily life. We'll draw on the springs of imagination readily available to us, just as we are: contemplation, memory, vision, and dreams. And we will write - poems, stories, letters, and notes - to carry forward on the journeys ahead.
Come chill for a little while or stay for the whole time. Everyone is invited! Students, staff, faculty, and the general public.
5:30 pm: Open mic + reading @ UConn Dairy Bar w/ Darcie Dennigan
Ana and Darcie will read, preceded by an open mic. Arrive early to sign up; readers will be compensated in ice cream.
Ana BožiÄ�eviÄ�:Born in Croatia in 1977, Ana is a poet, translator, teacher, and occasional singer. She is the author of the brand new Joy of Missing Out (Birds, LLC, 2017), the Lambda Award-winning Rise in the Fall (Birds, LLC, 2013) and Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009). She is the recipient of 40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism award from Feminist Press, and the PEN American Center/NYSCA grant for translating It Was Easy to Set the Snow on Fire by Zvonko KaranoviÄ� (Phoneme Media, 2017). The anthology of translations The Day Lady Gaga Died: An Anthology of Newer New York Poets she co-edited with Željko MitiÄ� appeared in Serbia in Fall 2011.
At the PhD Program in English at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York she studied New American poetics and alternative art schools and communities, and edited lectures by Diane di Prima for Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Ana has read, taught and performed at Art Basel, Bowery Poetry Club, Harvard, Naropa University, San Francisco State University Poetry Center, the Sorbonne, Third Man Records, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and The Watermill Center. She works and teaches poetry at BHQFU, New York’s freest art school. Learn more at anabozicevic.com.
Darcie Dennigan is the author of four books, including Palace of Subatomic Bliss and forthcoming in 2018, Animal Land. She likes to write neither prose nor poetry nor drama, but something that precariously balances between. The deeper she goes into the maze, the more that even a grammatical sentence is losing its definition. She is currently obsessed with books by Marie Redonnet and Hiromi Ito. Each spring, she teaches creative writing at UConn-- come find her.
Ana's workshop and reading are made possible by the generous support of the English Department's Speakers Fund and by the UConn Creative Writing Program.
For more information, contact: Kerry Carnahan at kerry.carnahan@uconn.edu