When: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: Free, open to the public
Duke University Center for International Studies/Globalization & the Artist present: Poet and translator Jane Hirschfield. Hirshfield’s poetry volumes include “After”, “Given Sugar, Given Salt” and “The Lives of the Heart”. Her translations include “The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Kamachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan” with Ariko Aratani and “Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women”. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and taught at UC Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, and other schools. The conversation is part of Hirshfield’s visit to Duke. Hirshfield will give a poetry reading on Wednesday, October 22 at 7 pm in the Von Canon B at the Bryan Center on Duke’s West Campus. Lunch will be provided. Parking is available in the Medical Center Parking Decks. Coupons are available from DUCIS/GATA

Co-sponsors: Duke University Center for International Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, English and Department of Religion
Contact Information: Sikorski, Rob 684-2867

  art, Asia, culture, Globalization and the Artist

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