Organizer: The Cambodian American Literary Arts Association

Description:

What is the rhetorical situation and how does it apply in all manners and genres of writing? What considerations do we make in order to create our written “voice”? As an accompaniment to this, we will look over a couple of examples of poems to be read aloud by willing participants to take in the features of the performative voice. What are the necessary elements and features that engage a reading, that which is the performance of the written voice?

Speaker:

Sokunthary Svay is a Khmer writer from the Bronx. A founding member of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association (CALAA), she has received fellowships from the American Opera Project, Poets House, Willow Books, and CUNY. In addition to a published poetry collection, Apsara in New York (Willow Books, 2017), her first opera, Woman of Letters, set by composer Liliya Ugay, received its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in January 2020.

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