|
Soga Japan Top Story |
Soga Japan Center Faculty to participate
in multi-lingual poetry reading Dr. Rika Saito, a Soga Japan Center core faculty member, will read a Japanese poem at a free local community event "Poetry Reading in Fifteen Languages: a Symphony for the Senses" from 3 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 15, at the Portage District Library.
Participants representing fifteen countries/areas of the world selected a favorite poem to read aloud, which may be one they have written themselves. Audience members will have a list of languages and readers, but no translations during the reading so that the rhythms, movement and intonation can flow over them, evoking their own feelings and meanings.
This event is cosponsored by the Western Michigan University Foreign Languages Department, Michigan Festival of Sacred Music and the Fetzer Institute. |
|
