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Chun Kit Jonathan Chan

Chelsea R. Grimmer

1/18/2019

Event Proposal

The city of Seattle is well known as a UNESCO World City of Literature who extensively promotes local creative scene as well as aims to foster cultural diversity. To be approved as a City of Literature, literature, drama and poetry play an important role in the city of Seattle. Several top-quality as well as diversity of publishing in the city throughout the years. Moreover, the city of Seattle hosts literary events and festivals which promote domestic and foreign literature.

One of the upcoming events is the poetry series at Seattle Arts and Lectures which features Iranian-American author Solmaz Sharif, who is a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and one of the best books of contemporary poetry published in the 21st century. She is also the finalist of the PEN Open Book Award and the winner of the 2017 American Book Award for poetry. Nonetheless, her works has been seen in several popular publications such as Poetry, Boston Review, Witness and Gulf Coast.

Besides, the poetry series event will be held on Monday, February 11th, 2019 at 7:30 pm at the location of Seattle Central Community College – Broadway Performance Hall in which Solmaz Sharif will talk about her astonishing book, LOOK. The book shows audience how easy and seductive that people crave for gaining a little bit of power by seeing others as objects, enemies, or props to generate fear. The book also shows the power of language by offering a different kind of language that people might use to short-circuit that mechanism as well as how governments use language to achieve certain goals. In other words, the book Look suggests that violence is conducts against our language in which the poems see the costs of war as the insidious abuses against our everyday speech.

In term of this, I believe that attending the event provides me opportunity to read, listen, and watch a variety of creative writing across niche and popular audiences in order to consider certain socio-political work. In this case, the poem features violence against language. Since attending the events helps me achieve our course goals, I believe that the poetry series which features Solmaz Sharif is an event that I cannot miss. I also propose it to be the event that I will attend and write about for my assignment.