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Pachinko Episode Screening and Q&A

Featuring: Chang-rae Lee with Screenwriters and Showrunners from Apple TV's Pachinko

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

7:00 p.m.

Location: Oren Family Auditorium in the Hughes Trigg Student ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

Hear from experts on screenwriting and production for television as guests from the hit Apple TV+ show Pachinko show a recent episode and answer moderator and audience questions. This special visit is part of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ English's Narrative Now Initiative and engages with the initiative's core desire to celebrate the power of story and voice.

Erika Meitner Poetry Reading and Book Signing

Monday, November 4, 2024

4:00 p.m.

Location: Bridwell Library

As part of her residency, Erika Meitner, the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Project Poëtica Inaugural Artist in Residence, will present a public reading of recent work and sign copies of her newest book (available for purchase at the event).

The event is free and open to all!

BIO: Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022). Meitner’s poems have been anthologized widely, and have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry, Orion, The Believer, and elsewhere. Other honors include fellowships from MacDowell, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Loghaven Artist Residency, Blue Mountain ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, T.S. Eliot House, the Virginia ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ for the Creative Arts, Marble House Project, Bethany Arts Community, and the Mandel Institute. She was also the 2015 US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. Meitner is currently a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also directs the MFA program in Creative Writing and the Conney Project on Jewish Arts.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ ENGLISH'S PROJECT POETICA: By encouraging innovative teaching, scholarly research, creative exploration, and public engagement with poetry, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Project Poëtica seeks to deepen appreciation for poetic form and explore the myriad ways in which poetry shapes and is shaped by human experience. The initiative comprises a cluster of faculty, poets, and graduate students who work on poetry and poetics in the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Department of English. ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Project Poëtica not only contributes to academic scholarship but also engages a broad audience in the appreciation and understanding of poetry as a vital and dynamic form of human expression.

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