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<b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-variant:small-caps;color:#984806">Southeast Asia Studies Poetry events</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<span style="color:#C55A11">Friday, December 1</span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C55A11"><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ko ko thett calls himself a poet of no place, a transnational poet, as opposed to a poet of place, a national poet. He was born in Burma, but he has no idea what Burmeseness
entails — the untenable notion of Burmeseness/Myanmarness is a theme he explores in
<i>The Burden of Being Burmese</i> (Zephyr, 2015). From 2012 to 2020, ko ko thett was country editor for Myanmar at
</span><a href="https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/" target="_blank"><span class="m-668025229259463072hyperlink0"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-decoration:none">Poetry International</span></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
and from 2017 to 2022, poetry editor for </span><a href="https://mekongreview.com/" target="_blank"><span class="m-668025229259463072hyperlink0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-decoration:none">Mekong
Review</span></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. His work in poetry translation has been recognized with an English PEN award. He currently lives in Norwich, UK.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text
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