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Video Archive - 2008
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Charles Simic Reading
October 21, 2008
UNLV Student Union Theatre
2007 U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, the author of eighteen collections of poetry, is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his book of prose poems The World Doesn''t End, and his 1996 collection, Walking the Black Cat, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His most recent poetry volume is That Little Something (2008). (read more)
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Charles Simic in Conversation
October 21, 2008
Moyer Student Union, UNLV
Poet Charles Simic engages students and faculty in conversation. A casual affair, this event took place in the afternoon of October 21, 2008, in advance of Simic's formal reading which took place later that night. (read more)

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Warring Perspectives: Israel, Palestine,
and Lebanon
April 23, 2008
Student Union Theater, UNLV
Lebanese novelist and critic Elias Khoury, author of Gate of the Sun and Yalo, and Israeli novelist and playwright A.B. Yehoshua, author of A Woman in Jerusalem and The Lover, discuss the intractable situation that exists among Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon. Although great admirers of one another's work, Khoury and Yehoshua do not necessarily agree politically. Nobel Laureate and BMI Senior Fellow Wole Soyinka moderates. (read more)
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"The Imagination in Exile"
April 2, 2008
Barrick Museum Auditorium, UNLV
Black Mountain Fellows Tom Bissell, Donna Hemans, and Josip Novakovich discuss writing about places an author doesn't reside and the influence of national identity on the creative imagination. Bissell's acclaimed memoir, The Father of All Things, contrasts today's Vietnam with that of the 1970s; Hemans' provocative River Woman shows Jamaica and New York in a fresh perspective; and Novakovich's darkly humorous April Fool's Day paints an absurdist picture of the Balkans since 1948. BMI Associate Director Richard Wiley moderates.
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Tom Bissell in Conversation with
John Bissell
March 12, 2008
Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas
Tom Bissell, Black Mountain Fellow and author of the acclaimed memoir The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam, is joined by his father, Marine veteran John Bissell, in a conversation about their 2004 trip to Vietnam to retrace John's tour of duty. BMI Executive Director Carol C. Harter moderates. (read more)
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