When: Saturday, April 13, 2019
Where: Brown Faculty Club
Time: 10:30am – 2:15pm
Join the U-FLi Center and the CareerLAB for this year’s U-FLiCON Remix!
For this special rendition of the CON, we’ve invited Paul Tran `14 to facilitate a workshop for student participants and provide a keynote address.
Additionally, alumni from a variety of industries will join us for a closing dessert reception and will be eager to share their experiences about how they navigated early careers as FLi graduates.
Come ready to listen, engage, and connect!
About the Workshop:
Participants in this generative writing workshop will read “Autobiography of Eve” by the poet Ansel Elkins. “I did not fall from grace,” Eve says. “I charged towards freedom.” We’ll write and share our own “Autobiography of…” poems, and in doing so, we’ll talk about the myths constructed about us and how, from the classroom to the workplace, we reinforce or subvert these myths.
About Paul Tran:
Paul Tran is the recipient of the Ruth Lily & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from Poetry Magazine and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and Netflix movie Love Beats Rhymes, alongside Azealia Banks, Common, and Jill Scott. Paul is the first Asian American since 1993 to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam, placing Top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and Top 2 at the National Poetry Slam. They are Poetry Editor of The Offing Magazine and Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in The Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis.