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What Would Emily Say? An Unbridled Translation Workshop
with Elizabeth Frankie Rollins & Kristen Nelson

Saturday
November 5 , 12-4 p.m.
Cost: $25

To register for this course visit: http://www.korepress.org/bigread2011.htm
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Program Description:

Spend the afternoon in conversation with the poems of Emily Dickinson using traditional and non-traditional translation methods and languages such as: homophonic translation, texting language, punctuation, Oulipo techniques, 21st c and other languages. Join us for a structured and unbridled workshop! Bring paper, pen, cell phones, computers, foreign language dictionaries. Snacks included.

This workshop is one of many spectacular events that are part of the NEA-funded Big Read Project directed by Kore Press. Kore has chosen to celebrate the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and bring her visionary work and inspiring life's story to our community in innovative and meaningful ways. Together with 40 partners, Kore's Big Read will present creative community programming taking place from September 22 to December 10, 2011. For more Big Read events please visit: http://www.korepress.org/bigread2011.htm

 

Elizabeth Frankie Rollins has published work in Conjunctions, Green Mountains Review, Trickhouse, Fact-Simile Press, Tarpaulin Sky, The New England Review, and The Bellevue Literary Review.  She is the author of The Sin Eater, Corvid Press, 2004.  She is the recipient of a NJ Prose Fellowship, and the 2007 Governor's Award Teaching Artist of the year. She traveled the schools of NJ for eight years teaching creative writing for NJ Writer's Project, and currently teaches writing at Pima Community College.

 

 

Kristen E. Nelson writes cross-genre texts. She has recently published work in Tarpaulin Sky, Trickhouse, Cranky Literary Journal, Quarter After Eight, In Posse Review, you are here and Dinosaur Bees. She is a founder and the Executive Director of Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center in Tucson, Arizona; an editor for Trickhouse; and a production editor for Tarpaulin Sky Press. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and teaches English and creative writing in Tucson, Arizona.