2019 was an incredible year for us, with teaching in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Japan, research and study in Czech Republic and Iceland, translation projects with film-makers and poets… Read more “Looking Ahead in 2020”
Author: Heathen (Heather Derr-Smith)
Heathen is a Poet and the author of The Bride Minaret (University of Akron Press, 2008), Each End of the World (Main Street Rag Press, 2005). and Tongue Screw (Spark Wheel Press. 2016). Her fourth collection, Thrust, winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and was published at Persea Books in 2017. They are a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop ('94) where they studied with James Galvin, Jorie Graham, Marvin Bell and Mark Doty. Heathen is the Founder and Executive Director of Cuvaj se/Take Care a nonprofit supporting writers in conflict zones and post-conflict recovery zones. Heathen's fifth book, Ouskirts, was published in March 2022 with University of Akron Press.
Studying in Iceland
This is Heather Derr-Smith in Iceland for the New Years. Fireworks have been popping and exploding outside my window for the last 72 hours! Icelanders are really… Read more “Studying in Iceland”
Sarajevo
Sarajevo is the birthplace, heart, and spirit of everything we do at Čuvaj Se. Our mission began there in a city under siege, whose citizens refused to… Read more “Sarajevo”
LGBTQ Poetry Workshops in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Cuvaj Se was in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina back in October 2016 doing LGBTQ Poetry workshops in coordination with American Corner Bih and The Tuzla Open Centre, an organization… Read more “LGBTQ Poetry Workshops in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina”
Workshops in Zaporizhia, Ukraine
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