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Poetry Reading: Kim Stafford: A Proclamation for Peace
Kim will be joined by local translators for readings of the featured poem in multiple languages. The book's editor, Allison deFreese, will moderate the event.
About A Proclamation for Peace:
This book sends a peace proclamation around the world so it may become a new poem in Arabic and Hebrew, Russian and Ukrainian, Tibetan and Mandarin, Tamil, Vietnamese, Polish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, and a host of other languages. Together with notes about peace-making translators and their languages, and QR codes for recordings of voices speaking gentle words, this book is for the children of the world.
Kim Stafford teaches and travels to raise the human spirit. He is the author of some forty books, including Having Everything Right: Essays of Place (1986), and As the Sky Begins to Change (2024). From 2018-2020 he served as Oregon Poet Laureate.
Allison A. deFreese (she/her/ella) is a translator, poet, and teacher. Her translations include MarÃa Negroni’s Elegy for Joseph Cornell (Dalkey Archive Press), José Moreno Hernández's Soaring to New Heights: The Memoir of a Child Migrant Farmworker Who Became a NASA Astronaut (Renuevo), and Verónica González Arredondo's I Am Not That Body (Independence, Oregon: Not a Pipe Publishing, 2024). She published two poetry chapbooks in November 2022: The Night with James Dean and Other Prose Poems (winner of Cathexis Northwest Press' 2022 chapbook competition) and Nurdles and Other Poems.
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