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Crossing Borders: The Immigrant Voice in American Literature. My communiques from Key West to the the freezing north on the sessions in this fascinating conference. For more information on this and other Key West Literary Seminars see: http://www.keywestliteraryseminar.org/ For details on the sessions
I'm discussing see:
http://www.keywestliteraryseminar.org/ Communique #1 Key West and Elmaz Abinador Communique #2 Keynote Address: Bharati Mukherjee Communique #3 Robert Olen Butler, Clark Blaise, Elizabeth Nunez and the panel discussion: What do immigrant writers know about America and the world that non-immigrants don’t? with Andrei Codrescu, Junot Diaz, Cristina Garcia, and Francisco Goldman. Communique #4 Jeanne Watasuki Houston and Giving Voice in a New Language, a conversation with Alexandar Hemon and Lan Cao. Communique #5 How do you translate yourself, your story, into a new language?, a conversation with Eva Hoffman and Elizabeth Nuñez Communique #6 Sandra Cisneros. Elmaz Abinader and David Wong Louie in a conversation on “Constructed Borders” Communique #7 Panel: The Impact of Culture: New Creativities in Literature and Life, Clark Blaise, Jeanne Houston, Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nunez Robert Olen Butler and Amy Tan Communique #8 Amy Tan Communique #9 Francisco Goldman on Jose Marti’s Vision of Our America Communique #10 Final session: The Borders of Our Lives Communique #11 Tony Kushner |
TESTIMONIALS  I have had the privilege to
attend two different memoir writing workshops given by Lil Blume, the
first was a workshop at Har El Synagogue in North Vancouver which was open
to all members of the congregation and the second was for the
Vancouver Second Generation group (adult children of Holocaust survivors)
who have been meeting regularly over many years and doing workshops with
Lil Blume. In each case Lil was enthusiastic, interesting, and motivating.
In each of these workshops, participants ranged widely in age, writing
ability, and experience as writers. Lil demonstrated an inspiring ability
to make the workshop relevant for all participants while supporting each
of us in such a way that we not only moved forward individually, but
learned to honour and appreciate the contributions of others. I cannot
recommend Lil highly enough as a teacher and mentor.
-- Helen Mintz, storyteller, performer, translator www.helenmintz.com
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