RSVP REQUIRED. Lunch will be served.
Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation – separately and in various combinations. She has lived mostly in the US and Japan, briefly in France and China, and translates from Japanese. Her books include Pink Waves (forthcoming, Omnidawn), Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (forthcoming, Wave Books), The Ants (Les Figues Press), Texture Notes (Letter Machine Editions), and the translation of The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books), as well as Mouth: Eats Color – Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, & Originals, a multilingual work of both original and translated poetry. She is co-editor of A Transpacific Poetics (Litmus Press), a gathering of poetry and poetics engaging transpacific imaginaries, as well as of a forthcoming anthology of 20th Century Japanese Poetry, co-edited with Eric Selland (New Directions). She teaches at Brown University. sawakonakayasu.net
This program is FREE and open to the public with registration being REQUIRED to attend. Lunch will be served to all registrants. Registration will close on Friday, February 28, 2020. Sponsored by The Program in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies with support from a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the United States Department of Education.