The Poetics of Translation Workshop Series - Fall 2020

The Poetics of Translation was a four-part series featuring several Eulalia Books translators who approached translation as a form of responsive writing and highlighted translation strategies as they apply to writing poetry. These interactive events were a combination of readings, presentations, Q&A sessions, and writing workshops and was open to all, no translation or foreign language experience necessary. Thank you to those who joined us for one or all of these sessions!

Workshops

September 2020

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The Mauve Desert, the book in discussion, is available for purchase on the Coach House Books website.

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Katabasis, the book in discussion, is available to purchase on the Eulalia Books website.

November 2020

October 2020

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Night in the North, the book in discussion, is available to purchase on the Eulalia Books website.

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Sleepless Nights Under Capitalism, the book in discussion, is available to purchase on the Eulalia Books website.

Bilingual Poetry Reading Workshop with Eulalia Books and co•im•press

Eulalia Books and co•im•press held a bilingual poetry reading at 7pm EST on Friday, October 30, featuring poet Lucía Estrada and translator Olivia Lott reading from Katabasis alongside poet Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and translator Katherine M. Hedeen reading from from a red barn. Thank you to everyone who attended!

Check out the book trailer for Lucía Estrada’s Katabasis, translated by Olivia Lott, a reading by translator Olivia Lott, and a recording of the bilingual poetry reading that took place over zoom for a glimpse at the atmosphere of a poetry reading!

Jeannine Marie Pitas - September 26, 2019

Jeannine Marie Pitas is the author of three poetry chapbooks and the translator of several Uruguayan poets, including Marosa di Giorgio. Her first full-length poetry collection, Things Seen and Unseen, was published by Mosaic Press in 2019. She lives in Iowa and teaches at the University of Dubuque.

Michelle Gil-Montero, editor at Eulalia Books, speaks to Jeannine Pitas, translator of Eco del Parque (Echo of the Park), by Romina Freschi, Eulalia’s first full-length book of poetry. Pitas describes her translation process, reads select poetry from the book, and answers attendees’ questions.

Rachel Galvin - May 1, 2019

Rachel Galvin, poet, translator, and scholar, was the final reader in the spring 2019 Saint Vincent College Visiting Writers Series. She is an associate professor at the University of Chicago and a co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective (www.outranspo.com).

Rachel Galvin reads from Elevated Threat Level, a collection of her lyric poetry that reflects on news reporting, natural disasters, journalist safety, and much more.

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Carmen Giménez Smith - March 26, 2013

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, three poetry collections, and three poetry chapbooks. She has also co-edited a fiction anthology and is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she now teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University and Ashland University, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press. 

Smith reads from her works and discusses them with an audience.

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Eduardo Chirinos & Gary Racz - October 22, 2012

Eduardo Chirinos, an internationally acclaimed voice of Latin American letters, is professor of Modern and Classic Languages and Literatures at the University of Montana. A member of Peru’s 80’s Generation, which came of age after a decade of military dictatorship, Chirinos won the Premio Casa de América in 2001 for his volume Breve historia de la música [A Brief History of Music] and the Premio Generación del 27 in 2009 for Mientras el lobo está [While the Wolf is Around].

Gary Racz, the translator of Eduardo Chirinos, is an associate professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at Long Island University and at Rutgers University (the latter only during the summer). He presently serves as President of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and as a book review editor for Translation Review. A specialist in poetry translation, Racz has published many poems by Spanish and Latin American writers including Chirinos’ most recent publication, The Smoke of Distant Fires.

Eduardo Chirinos and the translator of his works, Gary Racz, read to an audience.

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Kevin Pilkington - March 26, 2012

Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of six collections of poetry including The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). His poetry has appeared in many anthologies, and his poems and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry and Ploughshares, among others. He also has a novel entitled Summer Shares (out from Arche Books).

Pilkington reads from his works, as do the winners of the 2012 Ragan Poetry Contest.

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Horacio Castellanos Moya - October 20, 2011

Born in Honduras and raised in El Salvador, Horacio Castellanos Moya is the author of ten novels. He worked twelve years as a journalist in Mexico and has lived in Costa Rica, Canada, Guatemala, Spain and Germany (the latest under the auspices of the Frankfurt International Book Fair). He became famous in 1997 with the publication of his novel El asco [“Revulsion”], because of which he was forced into exile. In 2007, he came to the United States as writer-in-residence of City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, and he now teaches on the permanent faculty of The University of Iowa. His work has been translated into a dozen languages; four works have been translated into English, his most recent being Tyrant Memory.

Horacio Castellanos Moya reads from his works and comments on its subject matter.

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