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X-WR-CALNAME:Writers' Festival Keynote: Sholeh Wolpé
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DESCRIPTION:Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-American poet\, playwright\, and li
 brettist. Her publications number over twelve collections of poetry\, tran
 slations\, and anthologies\, as well as several plays. Her most recent boo
 k\, Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse\, was chosen by The Mary Sue magazin
 e as one of “8+ Beautiful\, Contemporary Novels Written in Verse That Ma
 ke Poetry Accessible\,” and was hailed by Colorado Review as a book that
  “examines the masks of patriarchy in powerful metaphor and narrative.
 ” Sholeh's publications number over twelve collections of poetry\, trans
 lations\, and anthologies\, as well as several plays. She is the recipient
  of a PEN/Heim\, Midwest Book Award\, and the Lois Roth Prize and was a 20
 24 award judge for Neustadt International Prize.\n\nWolpé’s translation
 s of the twelfth-century Sufi mystic poet\, Attar\, The Conference of the 
 Birds (W.W. Norton & Company)\, and of the twentieth-century Iranian rebel
  poet Forugh Farrokhzad\, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (Univer
 sity of Arkansas Press)\, have garnered awards and established Wolpé as a
  celebrated re-creator of Persian poetry in English.\n\nMost recently\, he
 r play SHAME was featured in New Iranian Plays\, published by Aurora Metro
  books (2022). Wolpé wrote the libretto for an oratorio\, “The Conferen
 ce of the Birds\,” and a multi-genre performance\, “The Seven Valleys
 ”\, which premiered respectively at the Broad Stage and the Getty Villa 
 Museum in 2022. “Song of Exile\,” commissioned by The Arlington Choral
 e premiered in Virginia in 2023. Her most recent commission as a librettis
 t is a full-length opera for six award-winning female composers.\n\nSholeh
  has lived in Iran\, Trinidad\, and the United Kingdom and is currently a 
 writer-in-residence at the University of California\, Irvine\, and the poe
 try editor at The Markaz. She performs her literary work solo and with mus
 icians internationally. She divides her time between Southern California a
 nd Barcelona.\n\nLike all other Writers' Festival events\, this event is f
 ree and open to the public.
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LOCATION:Dana Fine Arts Building\, Winter Theater
SUMMARY:Writers' Festival Keynote: Sholeh Wolpé
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