Zack reading at Notre Dame de Namur University
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Selected Invited Talks"The Influence of East Asian Literature on Western Poetry," First Asian Literature Festival, Gwangju, South Korea, November 2017.
"Learning from Writers You Hate," University of Alaska Anchorage low-residency MFA, July 2017. “From Translation to Performance: Colette Uncensored,” American Literary Translators Association annual conference, Oakland, California, 2016. “How to Be an American Writer,” Catamaran Writers Conference, Pebble Beach, California, 2016. “Translating Colette: A Writer for Every Stage of Life,” Department of Modern Languages, University of Oklahoma, 2015. “Tanka: History and Form,” for MFA students at University of Alaska Anchorage, 2014. “How Not to Become an Arts Dropout,” for graduating MFA students at California Institute of Integral Studies, 2012. “It Takes a Planet to Make a Poem,” Third Seoul International Forum on Literature, South Korea; 2011. “The Role of Performance in Contemporary Poetry in the U.S.A.,” Seoul National University English Department, South Korea; 2011. “Writing and Singing the Ghazal,” for MFA students, California Institute of Integral Studies; 2010. “Translating Marcel Pagnol’s Marius,” for panel at conference of Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Atlanta, 2007. “June Jordan as a New World Poet,” class at UC Berkeley English Department; November 2003. “Neruda’s ‘Oda a la sal:’ Democratic Magic in His Later Poems,” University of California, Berkeley; Spanish Department; March 2002. |
Selected Readings
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Dora Maar House Virtual Salon; Ménerbes, France
June 2020 Solstice MFA Program, Pine Manor College July 2019 Reading tour of Italy, spring 2018, including Caffe Letterario Le Murate, Florence; and The American Corner, Trieste Western Michigan University February 2018, Kalamazoo MI Dominican University January 2018, San Rafael CA Notre Dame de Namur University February 2017, Belmont CA University of Alaska Anchorage July 2016, Anchorage AK Litquake Festival October 2015, San Francisco Carleton College April 2015, Northfield MN University of Oklahoma April 2015, Norman OK Page Meets Stage (with Sarah Kay) May 2014, New York NY Gold Mine Saloon October 2013, New Orleans LA Seoul International Forum on Literature May 2011, South Korea Branford College, Yale University October 2008, New Haven CT |
Cornelia Street Cafe
October 2008, New York NY Lunch Poems Reading Series October 2005, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA Reading tour of Korea, January 2005 English Language and Literature Association of Korea conference in Gwangju, U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Section in Seoul, and Kyungpook National University in Daegu Bowery Poets Club July 2002, New York NY The Poetry Center, San Francisco State U. Videotaped for the American Poetry Archives October 1999, San Francisco CA Hart House, University of Toronto July 1985, Toronto, Canada Columbia University Maison Française March 1984, New York NY Librairie La Pensée Sauvage July 1980, Paris, France |