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SUMMARY:VIDEO | Writing Trauma\, from the Holocaust to the Pandemic: Poetry from Immigrant Jewish Writers from the Former Soviet Union
DESCRIPTION:In a combined conversation and reading\, writers Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan will discuss their poetry and the ways in which it speaks to traumas past and present with Sasha Senderovich\, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Slavic Languages & Literatures.\nWatch the talk now:\n \nAbout the event\nIn one of the poems addressed to her friend and written the morning after Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah) in April 2020 — as many parts of the United States were entering the second month of lockdowns necessitated by the spread of the Covid-19 virus — Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach queried:\nJust imagine\, one day we will ask our children\,\nRemember when the whole world stopped\ntouching? They’ll hug us and answer\, No.\nIn her poetic response later the same day\, Luisa Muradyan\, answering her friend — a fellow one-time immigrant from the Soviet Union and\, like her\, a mother of two young children born in the United States — speculated:\nI can’t decide what I’m more afraid of. My son\nbarreling across the room to hug strangers\,\nor my son barreling back away from others\,\npermanently terrified of touch.\nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach responded: \nI know you’ve had\nsuch days\, and far worse. It’s not\nthat bad\, we tell ourselves\, and hours later\,\nwe read poems about our dead ancestors\nwhile our children scream in the background\,\nraging against our history\, already inside them\,\nagainst an isolation that is the antonym\nof Jewish family.\n\nIn ways that are often provocatively quirky and brimming with U.S. American pop culture references (Muradyan) and influenced by theories of trauma (Kolchinsky Dasbach)\, each poet’s body of work dwells on the experiences of loss — of people\, lands\, words — across generations\, continents\, and languages.\nRegister for the event now > \nThis online event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. \nAbout the speakers\nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach (www.juliakolchinskydasbach.com) is the author of three poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother\, winner the Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press\, 2019) and finalist for the Jewish Book Award; Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press\, 2020)\, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize; and 40 WEEKS\, forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2023. Her recent poems appear in POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and The Nation\, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and is completing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on contemporary poetry about the Holocaust. She lives in Philly with her two kids\, two cats\, one dog\, and one husband.\nLuisa Muradyan (https://www.luisamuradyan.com) is originally from Ukraine and holds a Ph.D. in Poetry from the University of Houston where she was the recipient of an Inprint Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Fellowship and a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. She is the author of American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press) and was the Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from 2016-2018. She was also the recipient of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the 2016 Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Additionally\, Muradyan is a member of the Cheburashka Collective\, a group of women and non-binary writers from the former Soviet Union. Previous poems have appeared in the Threepenny Review\, The Missouri Review\, Coffee House Press\, Pleiades\, Poetry International\, and Ninth Letter among others.\nSasha Senderovich has published on Russian Jewish literature and culture in the Soviet Union and in the United States. His and Harriet Murav’s translation\, from the Yiddish\, of David Bergelson’s Judgment: A Novel was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017. His first book\, How the Soviet Jew Was Made\, is forthcoming (Harvard University Press\, 2022).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/writing-trauma-poetry-kolchinsky-dasbach-muradyan/
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