[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Malaysian poet on Monday the 16th

[Amanda J Labagnara]

Dear Creative Writing colleagues,
 
Just wanted to let you know that THE leading Malaysian poet will be on
campus this Monday.  His presentation will be a talk and a reading.  The
details are below!
 
Yours,
Deborah Wong
 
"The Brightest Flower in the Southeast Asian Literary Garden:
The Pantun through Time."
Muhammad Haji Salleh 
Monday, April 16, 2007
ARTS 159, 4:10-6:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public
The Pantun is used in most countries of Southeast Asia, and is found in at
least by 40 languages in the region and around the world. It is central to
the lives of Southeast Asians, in lullabies, childhood games, romance,
proverbs, narratives, and songs.
This talk traces its history and use in the past and present in Southeast
Asia and around the world. 
Muhammad Haji Salleh is a poet, critic and professor at the Universiti Sains
Malaysia, Penang. He has published several books of criticism and poetry in
Malay and English. His poetry works include Beyond the Archipelago, Rowing
Down Two Rivers, and Meraih Ruang/Reaching, while his critical works include
Yang Empunya Ceritera: The Mind of the Malay Author, Puitika Sastera Melayu,
and Romance and Laughter in the Archipelago.  Muhammad is a national
laureate of Malaysia.  He is at present an associate researcher at the
Harvard-Yenching Institute in Cambridge.
Sponsored by Southeast Asian Text, Ritual, and Performance (SEATRiP)
Parking $1/hour in Lot 1.  Arts 159 is on the ground level of the Arts
Building, near the vending machines.  For more information, contact Prof.
Hendrik Maier, hendrik.maier at ucr.edu, 951-827-7057.
 
 
Deborah Wong
Professor of Music
University of California, Riverside
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President Elect, Society for Ethnomusicology
www.ethnomusicology.org <http://www.ethnomusicology.org/> 
 
 


Maurya Simon

Professor 
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0318

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

FAX: (951) 827-3619 
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