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Inflection Points: A Gallery Talk on Poetry in Translation (Free and open to the public)
Inflection Points: A Gallery Talk on Poetry in Translation (Free and open to the public)
This event is a collaboration between ALTA and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. It is supported by a grant from Arizona Humanities, and hosted by the Tucson Humanities Festival at the University of Arizona. It can be accessed in InEvent, or by signing up on the Tucson Humanities Festival’s website.
As we emerge from this time of crisis, how might the field of literary translation chart new trajectories and imagine new narratives of possibility? Four translators of poetry— Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Arabic, French, German), Alex Braslavsky (Polish, Russian), Jein Han (Korean), and Farid Matuk (Spanish)—will discuss how this question informed their process of curating works for Inflection Points, a digital exhibition presented by the Poetry Center in collaboration with the American Literary Translators Association. Curators will highlight pieces from the exhibit and explore the potential for poetry to cross boundaries of language, culture, place, and time.
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Moderator
Julie Swarstad Johnson is the Archivist & Outreach Librarian for the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She coordinates the Center’s exhibition program and produces the podcast Poetry Centered. She is the author of the poetry collection Pennsylvania Furnace and Co-Editor of the anthology Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight