To celebrate the gift of Mary Oliver’s poetry, Twenty Summers and The Grolier Poetry Foundation and Forums Trust (the oldest poetry bookstore in America, located in Cambridge) will bring together four distinguished poets, including Martha Collins (Night Unto Night, 2018), to read from their favorite works by Mary Oliver and discuss her powerful legacy.
What role do translators play in bringing international literature to a US audience? What do they consider aesthetically, politically, when translating a work to English? Four distinguished New England based literary translators, including Martha Collins (Night Unto Night, 2018) discuss their work and their latest translations from the Russian, French, Vietnamese, and Haitian Creole.
Khaled Mattawa, judge of the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, has selected Patrick Johnson to be recipient of the 2019 prize for his manuscript Gatekeeper.
Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse was born in Belarus and, together with her family, emigrated to the United States in 1989. She has translated the work of Dimitry Bortnikov, Sergey Gandlevsky, and Ilya Brazhnikov. Educated at Vassar College, Oxford University, and University College London, she now lives in London.
Yuri Rytkheu (1930–2008) was born in Uelen, a village in the Chukotka region of Siberia. He sailed the Bering Sea, worked on Arctic geological expeditions, and hunted in Arctic waters, in addition to writing over a dozen novels and collections of stories. The English translation of his book A Dream in Polar Fog was a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Notable Book in 2006. In the late 1950s, Rytkheu emerged not only as a great literary talent, but as the unique voice of a small national minority—the Chukchi people, a shrinking community residing in one of the most majestic and inhospitable environments on earth.
Join Milkweed Editions and Graywolf Press during Lit Crawl for a night of the most groan-worthy, on-the-fly literary puns! RSVP on Facebook!
Visit Milkweed’s booth at Wordplay all weekend long for special deals, book bundles, totes, and more!
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry is very pleased to host this event, and to welcome back to Belfast two former Fullbright Distinguished Scholars, Erika Meitner and Wayne Miller. They will be joined by current PhD student Dane Holt for this afternoon reading.
Join the Blue Metropolis Literary Fesitaval for a conversation with Colin Niel, Peter Kirby, Deni Ellis-Béchard (White, 2018), and Isabelle Daunais.
