Fact & Fiction Downtown and On Campus, Missoula, MT

  As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series, poet and acclaimed German translator Peter Filkins will give a public talk titled “Ingeborg Bachmann: Everyday War,” at the University Center Lounge, Thursday, Sept. 10, 7 p.m. A reception will follow at 8 p.m. in the Davidson Honors College Lounge. Peter Filkins' talk is held in conjunction with the internationally traveling exhibit "Ingeborg Bachmann: Writing against War" that features the 20th-century Austrian author's writings and politicalwork from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. This photo exhibit of Bachmann and her work, on loan from the Austrian Cultural Ministry, will be displayed in the University Center Lounge August 31 to Sept. 2.   More about Peter Filkins. . . PETER FILKINS is a poet and an acclaimed translator who received a Berlin Prize fellowship in 2005. Filkins is the author of two books of poems, After Homer (2002) and What She Knew (1998). His translation of H.G. Adler's Holocaust novel, The Journey, was published in 2008, and his translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's collected poems, Darkness Spoken, was published in 2006. Filkins is the recipient of an Outstanding Translation Award (1994) from the American Literary Translators Association and a Distinguished Translation Award (2007) from the Austrian government. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including The American Scholar, Paris Review, Poetry, Partisan Review, and the N.Y. Times Book Review. Filkins earned an MFA in poetry at Columbia University and was a Fulbright Fellow in German at the University of Vienna from 1983 to 1985. He has held residencies at the Yaddo Artists Colony, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Filkins currently teaches and is the head of the Poetry & Fiction Series at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA.