They recently held the Irrawaddy Literary Festival, and the post-mortems and post-festival reflections keep coming, as now in The Myanmar Times Zon Pann Pwint finds Lit fest step in right direction, despite missed connections.
It's a bit disappointing to hear:
Meanwhile, also in The Myanmar Times, Bill O'Toole reports that Writers discuss the changing face of Myanmar poetry, as, for example, U Zeyar Lynn notes:
It's a bit disappointing to hear:
that much of the blame for missed connections between participants lay with the local writers, who were not well prepared for the festival.But hopefully there will be future opportunities.
Meanwhile, also in The Myanmar Times, Bill O'Toole reports that Writers discuss the changing face of Myanmar poetry, as, for example, U Zeyar Lynn notes:
In the past 20 years or so, we only had two kind of poems: the traditional kind and the modern kind. Now we have a lot poems written in new styles and new forms. ... We have prose poems, conceptual; our current poetry scene is very vibrant and diverse.