Events
Tibetan poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Poetry Reading
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Sponsored by Team Tibet, a club devoted to raising awareness at Carleton of cultural and political issues related to Tibet.
Tibetan poet, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, will give a poetry reading that covers topics such as diaspora and identity politics.
More about the writer: Tsering Wangmo was raised in India and Nepal. She received her MA in Literature from Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Ms. Dhompa articulates the voice of displaced Tibetans. Her works are mostly cultural, instead of political which is unusual of Tibetan writers. In this way, her voice is unique. She is the author of three books of poetry, /My Rice Tastes Like the Lake/ (Apogee Press 2011), /In the Absent Everyday /(Apogee Press 2005) and /Rules of the House/, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Her first non-fiction novel, /Imagined Country/, is forthcoming from Penguin, India. Tsering Wangmo worked as Liaison for Tibetan Programs for over a decade at the American Himalayan Foundation in San Francisco. She is working towards a PhD in Literature at UC-Santa Cruz.
For her poetry reading, Tsering will read from her latest works and talk about being a Tibetan writer. Question and answer session will follow.
The planned date and place of this event is Thursday, March 29, 2012 beginning at 7 pm at the Library Athenaeum. Sponsored by Asian Studies, the Chaplain's Office and the Humanities Center. (little note: the time for this reading was changed after the Humanities Center calendar was printed - the start time is 7 pm)
Sponsored by Asian Studies, Chaplain's Office, Humanities Center. Contact: Nikki Lamberty