Gwendolyn Albert
- Monday, March 3, 2003
Gwendolyn Albert is a native of Oakland, California. Albert
studied linguistics at UC Berkeley and was a Fulbright scholar at
Charles University in Prague during the 1989 Velvet Revolution,
which she participated in as a translator for Vaclav Havel's Civic
Forum organization. She has been living in the Czech Republic since
1994, where she is an activiist in refugee issues, police reform,
and Roma rights. Her translation of Eva Svankmajerova's surrealist
novella "Baradla Cave" was published by Twisted Spoon
Press (Prague 2000). She edited the expatriate section of "Ten
Years After the Velvet Revolution: Voices from the Czech Republic,"
a special issue of the New Orleans Review (Spring/Summer 2000)and
was Editrix of JEJUNE: america eats its young magazine from 1993
until issue 9 in 2000. Her work has recently been anthologized in
"Short Fuse" "the global anthology of new fusion poetry"
(Rattapallax Press, NY 2002).
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Gwendolyn Albert
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Performance of
"Poetry Without Words"
and the captured
audience (left)
and captured host
Laura Conway (above)
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From San Francisco on a short visit ... Jeremy Saxon
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