Sawako Nakayasu, photo by Dirk Skiba.
Literary Cabaret concludes with an evening of new writing from the Late Spring Writing Residency at Banff Centre.
The program features original work by writers-in-residence in fiction, nonfiction, prose, and hybrid forms. Artist, poet, and translator Sawako Nakayasu, author of Pink Waves, a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, will host the evening and close the program with a reading from her own work.
Enjoy a drink from the bar, browse a curated selection of books at Pages Books, and immerse yourself in the vibrant literary atmosphere. Doors open at 6:15 p.m., readings begin at 7:00 p.m., and you’re invited to stay and mingle with artists and faculty until 9:00 p.m.
About Sawako Nakayasu
Sawako Nakayasu
Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation – separately and combined. Recent books include Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award, Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020) and the pamphlet, Say Translation Is Art (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020). Translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Modern Library, 2020), as well as Mouth: Eats Color – Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, & Originals (Rogue Factorial, 2011), a multilingual work of both original and translated poetry. Settle Her, which was written on the #1 bus line in Providence on Thanksgiving Day of 2017 on the occasion of her cutting ties with normative Thanksgiving celebrations, is forthcoming from Solid Objects. She teaches poetry, translation, and interdisciplinary art in the Literary Arts department at Brown University.