“Breaking Silences” on February 20, 2018
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a professional development seminar for artists and other creative people on Tuesday, February 20, from 5:30-7:00 PM at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville. Join us as we welcome Marilyn Kallet!
“Breaking Silences” means pushing past obstacles to get our best writing done. Writers can fall silent for many reasons, some of which date back to childhood, some are more mechanical (i.e. too much else to do in a day). Our workshop will encourage writers to begin or continue composing work that each of us really wants to explore. This workshop will help us defy the censor and other obstacles, in order to return to our own voices.
Marilyn Kallet has published 18 books, including The Love That Moves Me, poetry (2013) and How Our Bodies Learned, lyric poetry (2018), both by Black Widow Press. She has translated Paul Eluard’s Last Love Poems, Péret’s The Big Game, and has co-edited and co-translated Chantal Bizzini’s Disenchanted City (with J. Bradford Anderson and Darren Jackson.) Dr. Kallet is Nancy Moore Goslee Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She also teaches poetry workshops each spring in Auvillar, France, for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, at their French studio. She has performed her poems on campuses and in theaters across the United States as well as in France and Poland, as a guest of the U.S. Embassy. The University of Tennessee lists her as a specialist in poetry and dreams, poetry and healing, and poetry’s role in times of crisis. http://marilynkallet.com/