S258. CANCELLED: Carrying Pollen from Exile to Exile—International Journals and Translation

Status: Not Accepted

Room 210B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

Editors consider the role of translation and the literary communities curated through international journals in an age of massive displacement of populations. For example, translation preserves and shares stories hidden in source languages while renewing the target language. But what do we look for in translation submissions? What do we mean by, and how do we achieve, diversity? How does one evaluate works from various aesthetic traditions with distinct goals and values in an age of crisis?


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_outline--translation_and_publishing.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Marcela Sulak has written the memoir Mouth Full of Seeds and three poetry collections and co-edited Family Resemblance, a hybrid anthology. Her five poetry translations received an NEA grant and PEN Award nomination. She edits the Ilanot Review and is associate professor at Bar-Ilan University.

Wayne Miller's most recent books are the poetry collection Post-, a cotranslation of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac, and the essay collection Literary Publishing in the 21st Century (coedited with Travis Kurowski and Kevin Prufer). He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel.

Sarah Coolidge is the associate editor at Two Lines Press. She manages the Two Lines journal as well as the Two Lines Press Calico series.

Eilis O'Neal is editor in chief of Nimrod International Journal and the author of the young adult fantasy novel The False Princess. She has served as Nimrod's editor for six years; prior to being named editor, she served as Nimrod's managing editor for eleven years.

Geoffrey Brock is the author of two books of poetry, the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous books of various genres, mostly from Italian. He teaches at the University of Arkansas, where he edits the Arkansas International.

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