{"id":303,"date":"2007-10-11T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/11\/slovenian-poet-tomaz-salamun-to-read-in-shambaugh-auditorium\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T14:41:19","slug":"slovenian-poet-tomaz-salamun-to-read-in-shambaugh-auditorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/11\/slovenian-poet-tomaz-salamun-to-read-in-shambaugh-auditorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenian Poet Tomaz Salamun to read in Shambaugh Auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/10\/5045_salamun.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"5045_salamun.jpg\" \/>The culimination of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~iwp\/\">International Writing Program&#8217;s <\/a>40th Anniversary Celebration is a reading by influential Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun on Friday, October 12 at 8 p.m. in Shambaugh Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Tomaz \u0160alamun was born in Zagreb, Croatia, raised in Koper, Slovenia, and now makes his home in Ljubljana. He studied art history and worked as a curator and a conceptual artist before turning to the written word. Having published 25 volumes of poems in his native Slovenia, \u0160alamun has received many prizes in Europe and been translated into nearly a dozen languages. <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F?func=direct&amp;doc_number=000842481&amp;l_base=uiowa\">The Selected Poems Of Tomaz \u0160alamun<\/a>, edited and in large part translated by Charles Simic, was the poet&#8217;s debut collection in English, brought out in 1988 as part of Ecco Press&#8217;s prestigious Modern European Poetry series. It was followed by The Shepherd, The Hunter (Pedernal, 1992), <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F?func=direct&amp;doc_number=001775258&amp;l_base=uiowa\">The Four Questions Of Melancholy <\/a>(White Pine Press, 1997), <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F?func=direct&amp;doc_number=002323320&amp;l_base=uiowa\">Feast <\/a>(Harcourt, 2000), and <a href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F?func=direct&amp;doc_number=003512933&amp;l_base=uiowa\">The Book for My Brother <\/a>(Harvest Books, 2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The culimination of the International Writing Program&#8217;s 40th Anniversary Celebration is a reading by influential Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun on Friday, October 12 at 8 p.m. in Shambaugh Auditorium. Tomaz \u0160alamun was born in Zagreb, Croatia, raised in Koper, Slovenia, and now makes his home in Ljubljana. He studied art history and worked as a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/11\/slovenian-poet-tomaz-salamun-to-read-in-shambaugh-auditorium\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Slovenian Poet Tomaz Salamun to read in Shambaugh Auditorium&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}