BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Creative Writing//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Creative Writing - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220923T2106Z-1663967170.1574-EO-21935-4@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T045142Z CREATED:20230109T204916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230207T210306Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230213T130000 SUMMARY: Poetry Panel with Victoria Chang and Brandon Shimoda (on Zoom) DESCRIPTION: Join us for this exciting poetry panel with Victoria Chang and Brandon Shimoda\, moderated by Professor Sheryda Warrener. Victoria Chang’ s latest works include her book of poetry The Trees Witness Everything (202 2)\, her nonfiction book Dear Memory (2021)\, and her multi-award-winning b ook of poems OBIT (2020). Brandon Shimoda is a yonsei poet/writer and the a uthor […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Join us for this exciting poetry panel with V ictoria Chang and Brandon Sh imoda\, moderated by Professor Sheryda Warrener.
Victoria Chang’s latest works include her book of poetry The Trees Witness Everything em> (2022)\, her nonfiction book Dear Memory (2021)\, and her mult i-award-winning book of poems OBIT (2020).
Brandon Shimoda i s a yonsei poet/writer and the author of The Grave on the Wall (20 19)\, which received the PEN Open Book Award. He is currently writing a boo k of nonfiction on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration.
The panel will discuss writing into ancestral memories\, working with famil ial and historical artifacts\, and finding creativity in formal constraints .
This poetry panel is open to the public and free to attend. Reg istration is required to attend.
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Brandon Shimoda is a yonsei poet/writer and the author of several books\, most recently < /span>The Grave on the Wall (City Lights\, 2019)\, which received the PEN Open Book Award. His book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarce ration received a Creative Nonfiction grant from the Whiting Foundation\, a nd is forthcoming from City Lights in 2024.
The School of Creative Wri ting’s Visiting Writers Program provides an opportunity for our students\, alumni and faculty to connect with insightful writers in small group settin gs. We encourage everyone in Creative Writing to take advantage of this opp ortunity – it’s a unique benefit of being involved in the School.
This poetry panel is open to the public and free to attend. Registration is required to attend.
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