Sarajevo, December 7th 2009
American poet Mrs. Heather-Derr Smith visited International University of Sarajevo on Monday, December 7th 2009 and held a poetry reading for all interested students in the IUS Conference hall starting at 17 o'clock. The event began with an introduction speech by Prof. Ann Henry from the IUS Faculty of arts and social sciences, and then continued with the readings by Mrs. Smith.
At the very beginning, Mrs. Smith presented and read poems from her first book titled „Each End of the World“, book written during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when she was working in the refugee camp. Due to this, poems from this book represent and use folk motives together with the refugee stories. As Mrs. Smith said „poems from this book are labors of love“ and after each of the poem she explained the story behind it.
As the evening continued, Mrs. Smith read from her other works as well, including the book „The Bride Minaret“, collection of poems that bear witness to the close connection between intelligence and love. Besides the poetry reading, Mrs. Smith, together with prof. Henry, held poetry workshop earlier on the same day that was attended by a number of students, both from IUS and other universities in Sarajevo.
