This roundtable features poets, translators, translatees, scholars, and all possible combinations of the above, who are currently translating poetic works from the French and/or being translated into French by our poet-translator colleagues. We will discuss the joys and challenges we face, including making translational choices at the level of the word, phrase, and sentence, finding publication venues, writing introductions that contextualize French and Francophone texts for English-speaking readers, and reaching broader audiences for poetic translation. We will aim for our remarks to open a larger conversation about the significance of new poetic developments outside of or adjacent to English for those of us writing and writing about/on/with poetry in English.
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| Date | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Voices of Poetry: Tina Cane, Jennifer Franklin, Michael Klein, & Matthew Thorburn | New York, NY | |
| Poetry Reading: Nicholas Gulig, Cody-Rose Clevidence, & Roberto Harrison | Milwaukee, WI | |
| The Poetry Project's 51st Annual New Year's Day Marathon | New York, NY | |
| This is the Year: Book Launch with Gloria Muñoz | St. Petersburg, FL | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: J. Mae Barizo, Dorothea Lasky, Maggie Millner, & Estha Weiner | New York, NY | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: Rio Cortez, Marilyn Hacker, Robert Wood Lynn, and John Yau | New York, NY | |
| H. G. Dierdorff & Erika Howsare | Charlottesville, VA | |
| Woodland Pattern's 31st Annual Poetry Marathon | Milwaukee, WI | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: Carolina Ebeid, Sally Wen Mao, Shane McCrae, & Evie Shockley | New York, NY | |
| Tiana Clark: Scorched Earth w/ Terrance Hayes | Brooklyn, NY |