An Evening with Czech Poet Bronislava Volková

Join us for An Evening with Czech Poet Bronislava Volkova!

Date: Tue Nov 19 2024

Time: 6:00 PM

Location: Embassy of Czechia

Come and immerse yourself in the world of Czech poetry as we host the talented Bronislava Volkova for an intimate evening of readings and discussions. Get ready to be inspired by her words and connect with fellow poetry enthusiasts. Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience the beauty of Czech literature up close! The event will be moderated by award-winning literary translator and the Poet Laureate Emerita of Arlington Virginia, Kathering E. Young. Parking is easily available on Spring of Freedom Street.

Bronislava Volková is a bilingual poet, semiotician, translator, collagist, essayist, and Professor Emerita at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she was a director of the Czech Program at the Slavic Department for thirty years. She went into exile in 1974, taught at the Universities of Cologne and Marburg, and subsequently at Harvard and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has published eleven books of existential and metaphysical poetry in Czech and seven bilingual editions illustrated with her own collages. She is also the author of two books on linguistic and literary semiotics: Emotive Signs in Language (John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1987) and A Feminist’s Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature (Edwin Mellen Press, New York, 1997), as well as lead translator and editor (with Clarice Cloutier) of a large anthology of Czech poetry translations, Up the Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry (Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, 2008). Her newest book is Forms of Exile in Central European Jewish Literature and Thought (Academic Studies Press, Boston, 2021; Czech edition by Pavel Mervart, Prague, 2022). Her poetry has been translated into thirteen languages, six of them as books. Since 2000, she has also been active as a collage artist and director of multimedia poetry performances. She has received a number of international literary and cultural awards and is a member of the Czech and American PEN clubs. She returned to her native country in 2018 and currently lives in Prague.
More at www.bronislavavolkova.com.

Katherine E. Young is the author of the poetry collections Woman Drinking Absinthe and Day of the Border Guards (2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist) and the editor of Written in Arlington. She has translated work by Anna Starobinets (memoir), Akram Aylisli (fiction), and numerous Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. Awards include the Granum Foundation Translation Prize, the Pushkin House Translation Residency, an Arlington County (Virginia) Individual Artist Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship, and a Hawthornden fellowship (Scotland). From 2016-2018, she served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Arlington, Virginia. 

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