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Kim Yideum’s Hysteria Wins 2020 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and the 2020 National Translation Award
On October 15, 2020, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced Kim Yideum's Hysteria (a collaborative translation by Hedgie Choi, Jake Levine, Soeun Seo) as the winner of both the 2020 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation [...]
Poesía en acción: Translator Micro-Interview Series: Molly Weigel
1. How did you start translating Susana Cerdá’s poetry? What drew you to it? Actually, Cerdá's “Patrimonies” was the first poem I translated from the Spanish (with Ernesto Livon Grosman) and my first [...]
Poesía en acción: Three Poems by Susana Cerdá and Translator Molly Weigel
Three Poems By Susana Cerdá Translated by Molly Weigel Desire Desire, inane wildfire, unreliable, uncontainable gabble, chastisement in itself, something that pulls and calls, that brings together everything that is. Furious ardor, more furious [...]
22 Dank Memes for the Translating Soul by Hedgie Choi
I wanted to talk about translation in one of the hardest forms to translate - memes! So here are some translation memes, about translating poems from Korean to English, co-translating, (lack of) project management skills [...]
poetry in action #10 | From Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young | Translated by Hedgie Choi
poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. It has three rallying cries: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publishable poetry [...]
Sick Sonnets: An Interview with Mai Ivfjäll by Paul Cunningham
“adblock all the art bros of the anthropocene that are having emotional responses to the end of nature my body falls apart with the moon but this isn’t a period poem it’s a poem period" [...]