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Lovesong to the Elsewhere with Andrea Jurjević
Lovesong to the Elsewhere: Croatian poet Andrea Jurjević writes about literary translation, poetry, and occasionally its sister art, painting.
Andrea Jurjević is a Croatian poet, writer and literary translator. She is the author of two poetry collections and a chapbook: In Another Country, winner of the 2022 Saturnalia Books Prize; Small Crimes, winner of the 2015 Philip Levine Prize; and Nightcall, which was the 2021 ACME Poem Company Surrealist Series selection. Andrea’s book-length translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. To learn more, visit: https://andreajurjevic.com/
Off Book with Madison Hatfield
Off Book: Georgia-based filmmaker Madison Hatfield yaps charmingly about writing for the screen.
Madison Hatfield is a screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker born and based in Atlanta, GA. Her latest short film I Could Dom is on the festival circuit now and has played at several Oscar-qualifying festivals including Austin Film Festival and Palm Springs ShortFest. She and frequent collaborator Jono Mitchell are currently writing a feature film adaptation of the YA novel The Sky Blues for Walden Media. As an actor, she has appeared on several shows including Atlanta (FX), Chicago Med (NBC), and The Other Black Girl (Hulu). She is proudly represented by The Gotham Group as a writer and director and Stewart Talent as a performer. Learn more at www.madisonhatfield.com.
Publicare with Kurt Milberger
PUBLICARE: The Latin “publicare,” meaning to “make public,” provides the root of our English verb “publish.” Midway between Latin and contemporary English, “to publish” also meant “to people, to populate, to multiply, to breed,” hence our notion that publishing creates publics: communities bound together by shared revelations, understandings, values, and practices. Influenced by Makoto Fujimura’s notion of “culture care,” Kurt Milberger considers moments in publishing’s history and present that demonstrate the power of “publicare” and how acts of publishing shape our lives as writers and beyond.
Kurt Milberger teaches publishing and professional writing at Kennesaw State University. He’s worked for several academic journals, and he studies literature, as well as editorial history, theory, and practice. After recently relocating his book collection to Georgia, he longs to no longer delight in books as material objects, but he has too great a fondness for the art of bookmaking.
The Vain Conversation with Tony Grooms
The Vain Conversation: A miscellany for writers and students of writing.
Anthony Grooms is an award winning novelist, short-story writer and poet. He is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University.
https://www.anthonygrooms.com
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