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John Balaban & Le Pham Le read next Thursday at the Newberry Library

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Thursday, October 28, 6:00 PM

Poetry Off the Shelf:
John Balaban & Le Pham Le

Ruggles Hall
The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Free admission


John Balaban is a translator of Vietnamese poetry and a past president of the American Literary Translators Association, as well as a poet-in-residence and professor of English in the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He has been honored with the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont prize as well as the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, earned two nominations for the National Book Award, and in 2003 was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Born in Vietnam, Le Pham Le taught high school for five years, then left her country with her family during the fall of South Vietnam. Her first publication is a bilingual collection of Vietnamese poems entitled Gio Thoi Phuong Nao/From Where the Wind Blows (Vietnamese International Poetry, 2003).

 

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