R191. Communication is Translation: How the Act of Translating Influences the Act of Poesis

Cedar Room, Sheraton Seattle, 2nd Floor
Thursday, February 27, 2014
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

George Steiner believes that “all acts of communication are acts of translation.” If this is fact, then why is there so often so little room in the world of translation for creative communication? Through selected readings and lively discussion, this panel of poets, prose writers, and editors will examine the validity of Steiner’s supposition by exploring the effects of traditional translation, imitation, and riff on the "making" and communication of their own bodies of creative work.


Participants

Moderator:

Iris Mahan was the runner-up for 2013 Donald Everett Axinn Award in poetry. Editor of the online review, Ter Duende, her chapbook Bathe Once Before and Twice After is also available online.

Barbara Siegel Carlson is a poet and translator. Her poetry collection Fire Road was published in 2013. She is co-translator (with Ana Jelnikar) of the Slovene Srecko Kosovel's selected poems Look Back, Look Ahead.

Richard Jackson is the winner and recipient of AWP's George Garrett Award; Guggenheim, Witter-Bynner, NEA, and NEH fellowships; five Pushcart prizes; and the Slovene Order of Freedom Award. He is the author of ten books of poems including Resonance, Out of Place, two books of criticism, and two Slovene anthologies.

Esther Allen

William Pitt Root

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