Stewart is the recipient of two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. Lyn Hejinian, a nationally regarded language poet, essayist and translator, will visit UB Nov. 10-11. The film, produced in 1998 by the Human Arts Association, chronicles the extraordinary correspondence of Hejinian and Russian poet Arkadii Dragomosh-chenko. Lili Taylor stars as the voice of Hejinian and Victor Nord reads Dragomoshchenko. The film, which has been widely acclaimed at many U.S. film festivals, won best documentary feature at the South by Southwest Film Festival, where it premiered in 1998 and was awarded the Golden Apple Award by the National Education Media Network.
All events are free and open to the public, except as noted.
The series is produced with the cooperation of the UB Center for the Arts, the Department of Media Study and Talking Leaves bookstore.