UMass Amherst Workshop and Open Lecture
2:30 pm (Herter 117)
WORKSHOP: Writing in the Twenty-First Century: Archive, Form, and Fiction
5:00 pm (Herter 301)
OPEN LECTURE: Language, Memory and Literature
2:30 pm (Herter 117)
WORKSHOP: Writing in the Twenty-First Century: Archive, Form, and Fiction
5:00 pm (Herter 301)
OPEN LECTURE: Language, Memory and Literature
In Basque and Me, Kirmen Uribe reflects on his journey from growing up under Franco’s dictatorship to writing in New York, exploring how Basque, Spanish, and English shape memory, identity, translation, and literary form, and how writing between languages expands the possibilities of literature in an interconnected world.
Celebrating 25 years of Bitartean Heldu Eskutik (Meanwhile, Take My Hand), Kirmen Uribe’s iconic collection of poems, first published in 2001 and...