Fact & Fiction Downtown & On Campus, Missoula, MT

As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series, poet and acclaimed German translator Peter Filkins will give a public talk titled “Ingeborg Bachmann: Everyday War,” at the University Center Lounge, Thursday, Sept. 10, 7 p.m.

A reception will follow at 8 p.m. in the Davidson Honors College Lounge.
Peter Filkins' talk is held in conjunction with the internationally traveling exhibit "Ingeborg Bachmann: Writing against War" that features the 20th-century Austrian author's writings and politicalwork from the 1940’s to the 1970’s.

This photo exhibit of Bachmann and her work, on loan from the Austrian Cultural Ministry, will be displayed in the University Center Lounge August 31 to Sept. 2.

More about Peter Filkins. . .

PETER FILKINS is a poet and an acclaimed translator
who received a Berlin Prize fellowship in 2005. Filkins is the author
of two books of poems, After Homer (2002) and What She Knew (1998). His translation of H.G. Adler's Holocaust novel, The Journey, was published in 2008, and his translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's collected poems, Darkness Spoken, was published in 2006.
Filkins is the recipient of an Outstanding Translation Award (1994)
from the American Literary Translators Association and a Distinguished
Translation Award (2007) from the Austrian government. His poems,
essays, and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including The American Scholar, Paris Review, Poetry, Partisan Review, and the N.Y. Times Book Review.
Filkins earned an MFA in poetry at Columbia University and was a
Fulbright Fellow in German at the University of Vienna from 1983 to
1985. He has held residencies at the Yaddo Artists Colony, the Millay
Colony for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Filkins currently
teaches and is the head of the Poetry & Fiction Series at Bard
College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA.

As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, Poet Annie Finch will talk about her poetry fieldwork with the Glacier Park wolves and read from her recent work Thursday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m. at the Poetry Corner of the Mansfield Library (NW corner of the fifth floor), University of Montana.  

More about Annie Finch . . .

Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism.  Her books of poetry include Eve, Calendars, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses: A Narrative Libretto. Her
music, art, and theater collaborations include two operas. Her poems
appear in anthologies, textbooks, and journals including Agni, Fulcrum, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and Yale Review, and her books on poetics include A Formal Feeling Comes, An Exaltation of Forms, The Ghost of Meter, The Body of Poetry, and the forthcoming A Poet’s Craft. Her book of poetry Calendars
was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award and in
2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award. She has performed her
poetry across the U.S. and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and
Spain.  Finch earned a BA from Yale University, a MA in Creative
Writing from the University of Houston, and a PhD in English from
Stanford University.  She lives in Maine where she directs Stonecoast,
the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine.