November 2011
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Thanks and stay tuned...
Thanks for following POETRY IN TRANSLATION. Stay tuned for the next iteration of Wave Books’ tumblr (after a brief hiatus)!
Nov 21st
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Nov 18th
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Nov 17th
http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/news/166/corneliu_m_po... →
Judith Wilkinson’s translation of Raptors, by Toon Tellegen, wins the Poetry Society’s 2011 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation.
Nov 17th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 9th
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Nov 8th
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Nov 7th
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3 Days of Poetry: POETRY IN TRANSLATION
If you are in Seattle, come see us today, and all weekend, at the Henry!  Wave Books presents its 2nd annual 3 Days of Poetry festival. This year the festival will celebrate POETRY IN TRANSLATION, November 4th through 6th, in association with the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, featuring readings in the James Turrell Skyspace, art exhibitions, lectures, and discussions....
Nov 4th
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3 Days of Poetry: POETRY IN TRANSLATION →
Tickets are still available for Wave’s 2011 poetry festival, November 4-6 at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle! Schedule is available here!
Nov 3rd
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Congratulations!
Chae-Pyong Song is the winner of a complimentary festival pass and welcome packet to 3 Days of Poetry: Poetry in Translation, Wave Books’ 2011 poetry festival coming up next weekend, November 4-6!
Nov 2nd
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Nov 2nd
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Nov 1st
October 2011
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Oct 31st
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World Poetry Portfolio #44: Iztok Osojnik →
"...not the only thing my heart is after / in its battle with the world..."
Oct 29th
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Beckman & Zapruder on translation →
Poets and Wave editors Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder talk with David Shook about poetry in translation, on Molossus.
Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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Wesleyan Professor Shengqing Wu discusses... →
Early 20th century Chinese poets translating Western poems and challenges they faced. Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Wu discusses her research on poetic translation in early 20th century China. She focuses particularly on challenges faced by Chinese poets and the choices they made in their attempt to best translate Western poems.
Oct 26th
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Oct 25th
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http://www.poetryinternational.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_... →
Hiromi Itō reads “Coyote” in Japanese, beside an English written translation by Jeffrey Angles.
Oct 24th
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http://www.poetryinternational.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_... →
Anne Cotten reads her poem, “Love is the Answer - Rancid Woven  Seal” on Poetry International Web.
Oct 21st
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TWO VOICES: Joshua Beckman Presents Micrograms by... →
Listen to an audio recording of this event, hosted by the Center for the Art of Translation.
Oct 18th
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Interview with Alissa Valles on translating...
“In translating, do you tend more toward trying to make the reader forget that this isn’t the original, or trying to actively remind the reader that this is from a different language? I strive to avoid translationese. One has to make the language sound completely natural, without allowing readers to forget the writer’s words are coming from farther away. It’s a conundrum.  Can a...
Oct 17th
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http://life.salon.com/2011/10/09/the_birth_of_the_g... →
Salon magazine speaks to David Bellos about process and social meaning of translation.
Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/01/lju... →
Anthony McCann writes about and shares audio clips from the weeklong festival, “At the Word with Voice and Sound,” in Ljubljana, Slovenia, featuring Primož Čučnik, Ana Pepelnik, Gregor Podlogar, and Tomaž Grom (November, 2010).
Oct 14th
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http://translationista.blogspot.com/ →
Susan Bernofsky’s blog. Did you know there is an OWS Translation Working Group of the General Assembly?
Oct 13th
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Teaching in Translation: These Pines →
a new series on teaching in translation by Words Without Borders.
Oct 12th
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Listen Reading the World #6: Forrest Gander Here’s the...
Oct 11th
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upcoming events at the Center for the Art of... →
Oct 10th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 6th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 4th
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from Three Percent →
Interesting statistics on what’s being published in translation in the US & links to the 2011 database, from Three Percent.
Oct 3rd
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Oct 1st
September 2011
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Today is International Translation Day →
[Today] Is International Translation Day Posted on September 29, 2011 by Scott Esposito Translation has its own special day, and that day is [today]. Per Wikipedia, it’s celebrated on September 30 because that day coincides with “the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered as the patron saint of translators.” English PEN will be hosting a day of panels...
Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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Sep 29th
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Maged Zaher on PennSound →
Poet Maged Zaher on Cross Cultural Poetics with host Leonard Schwartz
Sep 27th
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