T152.
Translingual Poetics, Transgression & Resistance
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Poets and translators discuss how translingualism, defined by Dowling as “a set of strategies by which writers engage with diverse linguistic codes in ways that are context-dependent,” can constitute transgressive acts of resistance, in contexts where political, patriarchal, and settler colonial powers have encoded hierarchical values to languages, bodies, and cultures. They consider interlingual dynamics and tensions between translatability and untranslatability at play in translingual poetics.
Participants
Beatrice Szymkowiak is a French American writer and the author of Red Zone. Her work has appeared in many poetry magazines. She obtained a MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and she is now a PhD candidate and research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Clara Burghelea is a Romanian-born poet, editor, and translator. Winner of the Robert Muroff Prize in Poetry, she received her MFA in poetry from Adelphi University in 2018. Her collection The Flavor of the Other was published in 2020 with Dos Madres Press.
Brenda Cárdenas, former Milwaukee poet laureate, has authored Boomerang: Poems and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone, coauthored two chapbooks, and coedited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest.
Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of eight collections of poetry and prose. Her honors include a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Donald Hall Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Harvard and Tufts, and she was founding faculty in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
