Poetess visit to Karaganda
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On September 14th 2015 American poetess and writer Michelle Chan Brown conducted a training to young generation. "Celebrate Yourself: How to Write an Epic Poem" with a little help of Walt Whitman. On the base of the poem "Song of myself" students of the 2nd year college Bolashak had written their own variants of poem, making list of desires, fears and dreams.
Michelle Chan Brown’s Double Agent won the 2012 Kore First Book Award, judged by Bhanu Kapil. Her forthcoming book, Motherland, with Wolves, won the 2014 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize. Her poems, reviews and essays have appeared in Blackbird, Cimarron Review, The Missouri Review, Witness and many others. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia Young Writers’ Conference, and served as writer-in-residence at Pomfret School and director of the Broken Bridge Summer Arts Workshop. A Kundiman fellow and Rackham Fellow at the University of Michigan, Michelle is poetry editor of Drunken Boat. Michelle was born in London and grew up in Prague, Belgrade, Krakow, Kiev, and Moscow. She currently lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where she is a Fulbright scholar, at work on a hybrid text and blogging at Year of the Horse.
