R138. Double Lives: Writer/Translators
Thursday, February 27, 2014
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Participants
Susan Harris is the editorial director of Words without Borders and the coeditor, with Ilya Kaminsky, of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.
Lawrence Schimel is an award-winning author and anthologist writing in both Spanish and English who has published over one hundred books in many different genres. He is also the publisher of A Midsummer Night's Press. He is a Spanish to English translator in Madrid.
Sholeh Wolpé was born in Iran and has lived in Trinidad, the UK, and the United States. Her publications include three collections of poetry, most recently, Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, an award-winning book of translations, Sin, and three anthologies. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA program.
Geoffrey Brock is a poet and a translator of Italian poetry and prose. He's the author of Weighing Light: Poems, the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of Cesare Pavese's Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950. He teaches at the University of Arkansas.
Idra Novey is the author of Exit, Civilian, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2011 National Poetry Series, and The Next Country. Her work has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered," in Poetry, and Slate. Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H.