Literary Journal Editors’ Roundtable, Part 2

Come hear editors from such journals as Prairie Schooner (Kwame Dawes), The Southern Review(Jessica Faust), and Two Lines (Michael Holtmann) who will provide brief introductions to their journals, discuss the importance they place on translation for their magazines, share their personal tastes regarding what they like in a translation, and then answer questions from the audience.

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Moderator

Nancy Naomi Carlson, an ALTA Board member, has received two NEA literature translation grants. She has authored ten titles (six translated). A translation editor for Tupelo Quarterly, she was a finalist for the Best Translated BookAward and was decorated by the French government with the French Academic Palms. www.nancynaomicarlson.com.

Presenters

Kwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose including Nebraska: Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). The recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, he is Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. Michael Holtmann is Executive Director of the Center for the Art of Translation and publisher of Two Lines Press. Prior to joining the Center, he held positions at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Folger Shakespeare Library, among others. He recently served on ALTA’s Board of Directors. Jessica Faust is Coeditor and Poetry Editor of The Southern Review and has been with the journal since 2004. Poems from The Southern Review perennially are selected for The Best American Poetry, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology.