BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Chautauqua Institution - ECPv6.2.9//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Chautauqua Institution X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.chq.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Chautauqua Institution REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T163000 DTSTAMP:20240329T045017 CREATED:20221206T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T193230Z UID:60333-1692891000-1692894600@www.chq.org SUMMARY:CLSC - The Wild Fox of Yemen with Threa Almontaser DESCRIPTION:The winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\, The Wild Fox of Yemen won both the 2021 Maya Angelou Book Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize\, among other distinctions. \nThrea Almontaser’s debut collection of poems asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and people of Yemen\, a portrait of young Muslim womanhood in New York after 9/11\, and an extraordinarily composed examination of what it means to carry in the body the echoes of what came before\, Almontaser’s polyvocal collection sneaks artifacts to and from worlds\, repurposing language and adapting to the space between cultures. \nDuring a week when we will turn our focus to the global south for what we have too often overlooked or misunderstood from these parts of the world\, we will consider\, through The Wild Fox of Yemen and Almontaser’s presentation\, the role of language and what is beyond the limits of the American imagination. \nThrea Almontaser is the author of the debut poetry collection The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press 2021)\, nominated for the National Book Awards and winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American poets\, the Maya Angelou Book Award\, the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize\, and the Arab American Book Award. She is a recipient of writing fellowships from Duke University and the Fulbright Program. She earned her MFA from North Carolina State University and teaches English to immigrants and refugees in her area. \nAttendants are encouraged to access and read the following poems before or during the presentation on Thursday: \nForce Visibility \nHow Say \nLet Me Try Again \nInterview With A Birangona URL:https://www.chq.org/event/clsc-the-wild-fox-of-yemen-with-threa-almontaser/ LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy\, Hall of Philosophy CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC),Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly,Week Nine (August 17–25),Literary Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chq.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022_CLSC_Almontaser.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR