S113. Translating Parts Unknown: Transforming American Landscapes by Recovering Neglected Poets
Saturday, February 11, 2017
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Participants
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.