Upcoming Events
March 6, 2025
5:30 pm in Rapaporte Treasure Hall
"For a refugee or survivor, in the gaping absence of a home and of those who sang for us, the song or a poem is all that remains, ensconced in our memory—a memory, that becomes sacred." - Mireille Gansel
Mireille Gansel (b. 1940) is an acclaimed French translator of German and Vietnamese poets and the author of seven books of poetry. Her translator's memoir, Translation as Transhumance, won awards from English PEN and French Voices. She has received many honors for her work as a translator and a poet including the Great Prize of Translation Etienne Dolet-Sorbonne Université, the Veu Lliure Prize from the Catalan PEN, and the Prix Gérard de Nerval for her translation of Reiner Kunze's poetry. Soul House, her new collection of poems, is the first book of her poetry to appear in English translation. Read a review of Soul House and interview with Gansel.
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program with support from the Brandeis Library; French and Francophone Studies; German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature
May 1, 2025
5:30 pm in the Mandel Atrium
Join us for the annual end-of-year celebration of Creative Writing graduates. Honors students will read longer selections of their work, savory and sweet refreshments will be served, and all are welcome. We hope you'll join us at this inspiring evening.