Poetry Mixtape #2 by Olivia Lott
In homage to the dialogic motion of poetry and also to Gen X. Mixed by Olivia Lott Mixtape #2 is in celebration of National Translation Month. To be read in order. Track 1. “Not Forgetting or [...]
The Mistake of Familiarity, and Translating Toward West Africa by Todd Fredson
The following is an adaptation of a presentation given for The Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University. So, I have, basically, a [...]
From Kari 1983 by Helena Österlund | Translated by Paul Cunningham
From Kari 1983 The sun was yellow and the sky was blue and summer was summer and Kari sat opposite that lake and that lake lay there in Sweden and it was 1983 and Kari thought about what the lake [...]
From Choi Seungja’s Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me | Translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong
Not Forgetting or Memorandum 1 Nobody will know how those times passed. Nobody will tell you the inside facts of those times. The years threw heaps of shit at me, lump after lump, asking me to live [...]
Anne Portugal: My 5 selfies with John Ashbery | Translated by Andrew Zawacki
My 5 selfies with John Ashbery [...]
Two Poems by Mayra Santos-Febres | Translated by Seth Michelson
gyna sapiens lo primero que hay que hacer es respirar entender que el aire corre por los pulmones sale por las comisuras de la nariz relaja los músculos, los tensa, cae en la sangre susurra al oído- no estás sola [...]
poetry in action #9 | Marko Tomaš Translated by Rachael Daum
AWARENESS OF THE TEXT This poem is the ruination of poetry. It doesn’t understand the melancholy of September winds or that I’d ask for the sound of leaves of this book to come from it as though [...]
Four Poems by Mutsuo Takahashi (高橋睦郎) Translated by Jeffrey Angles
The Voter Speaks We cannot give up voting by ostracon—why is that, you ask? So that even those who have not enough status to sit in the audience Can rewrite the plot for the protagonist on stage, you [...]
errances: an essay of errors | after Jacqueline Beaugé-Rosier translated by Gabrielle Civil
[“leave the mistakes in said the conductor to the score” ............-how I remember Tess Gallagher’s instructions] ...............................................“Leave the mistakes in,” Ives told ...................................his conductor, handing him his new score. ...................................So it feels good, these sudden lips jabbing the chin [...]
A Translator’s Voices: Karaoke in Reverse by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg | Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen
Perhaps the way to measure to what extent someone is a translator is by the amount of times they’ve been asked if it’s really possible to translate. In fact, the question conveys a common suspicion, which in turn is reduced [...]