Content tagged with “Aspen Writers Foundation”
On the streets of Iran, Tunisia, Egypt and beyond, poems are being used as rallying cries for revolution while social media have become the vehicles for delivering them. Daniyal Mueenuddin and Reza...
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For all the attention they receive, the cultures of the Middle East seem to resist understanding in the West. In an interview with Rob Spillman, poet Peter Cole discusses the place of translation...
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Alter Egos is presented by the Aspen Writers Foundation for Aspen Summer Words 2011. In the tradition of doctor-poet William Carlos Williams, two authors who have hyphenated their time between...
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Presented by the Aspen Writers Foundation for Aspen Summer Words 2011, this afternoon of on-stage chemistry features friends Khaled Hosseini and Firoozeh Dumas sharing the backstories of their lives...
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(Aspen, CO, May 24, 2011) As revolution — carried on the wings of poetry and social media — dawns across the Middle East, all eyes are on the fabled region, including, auspiciously, those of the...
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Emma Donoghue has earned her living as a writer since the age of twenty-three. She has authored eight works of fiction, five literary history books, and drama for the stage and radio; created a...
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Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which has been called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by...
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Paul Muldoon, a native of Northern Ireland now residing in the U.S., is celebrated worldwide as one of the most significant poets of our time. Muldoon has published over thirty volumes of poetry,...
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Renowned author/musician John Wesley Harding brings his traveling Cabinet of Wonders back to Aspen for a one-night only public performance. This "whip-smart variety show" (Portland Tribune) is a...
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