S113. Translating Parts Unknown: Transforming American Landscapes by Recovering Neglected Poets

Marquis Salon 12 & 13, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
Saturday, February 11, 2017
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Translation offers unique opportunities to recover and discover neglected poets who push against the boundaries of convention, enriching American traditions. Writers who translate previously under-appreciated Albanian, Vietnamese, Russian, Spanish, and French poets discuss the challenges and joys associated with such work. To encourage more writers to translate as an act of creative discovery, they also explore professional opportunities and offer insights into craft and criticism.


Participants

Moderator:

Linwood Rumney is the author of Abandoned Earth, winner of Gival Press's 17th Annual Poetry Prize. His work, including translations of Aloysius Bertrand, has appeared in North American Review, Ploughshares, Arts & Letters, Harpur Palate, the Southern Review, and elsewhere.

John Balaban's twelve books have won the Lamont Prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, two nominations for the National Book Award, and a medal from the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture for his work in translation.

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 & Kevin Prufer). He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, and he edits Copper Nickel.

A'Dora Phillips is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. A graduate of the UMass Amherst MFA program, her work has been published in several journals and her translation of Marina Tsvetaeva's Letter to the Amazon as a chapbook.

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