AWP SAN ANTONIO EVENTS

The AWP 2020 event schedule is out! Please include our panels in your planning. See you in San Antonio!

Event Title: Translating the Untranslatable: A Reading of International Experimental Poetry with Helene Cardona, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Michele Gil-Montero, and Marc Vincenz, moderated by Larissa Shmailo
Scheduled Day: Thursday, 3/5/20
Scheduled Time: 09:00:AM–10:15:AM
Scheduled Room: Room 211, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level

Event Title: What Kind of Times Are These? Immigrant Poets and the New Politics of Resistance with Valzhyna Mort, Anna Halberstadt, Larissa Shmailo, and Mariya Deykute, moderated by Olga Livshin.
Scheduled Day: Thursday, 3/5/20
Scheduled Time: 03:20:PM–04:35:PM
Scheduled Room: Room 214B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level

AMERICAN VS IMMIGRANT

I am the child of immigrants interned in camps by Hitler and sent to Siberia by Stalin. I am always amazed by the entitlement of Americans and some foreign nationals not blessed with this authoritarian pedigree. I worry if I don't have my prescription number when I call the pharmacy, if I've gotten ahead of anyone on line and am terrified of any government letter. But at the slightest slight, Americans will hold a roomful of people up to get what they think is their due, and their due is always ten times what I would ask. And they expect good treatment, even when they are in the wrong, always ready to defend their bad behavior. I was born apologizing. Needless to say, some poets are immigrants, and some (you know who) are as American as Donald Trump.