Celebrating literary translation—with first-time-in-English poetry collection

 

Erín Moure Wednesday, March 18 7 p.m.  City of Asylum @ Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue FREE! Click here for free tickets   Erín Moure visits City of Asylum to read from her newest translations: Sleepless Nights Under Capitalism: The Poems of John Wendell by Argentine poet and political exile Juan Gelman and The Uplands: Book of the Courel and other poems by Uxío Novoneyra∫∫—available for the very first time in English. Fluent in French, Galician, Portunhol, Portuguese, and Spanish, Erín is widely celebrated for her playful, poly-lingual translations and her dedication to the artistry and craft of literary translation.  This program is presented in partnership with Eulalia Books, Pittsburgh's small press publisher of poetry in translation, who specialize in brining ex-centric poetry into English for the first time. Michelle Gil-Montero, founder of Eulalia, will moderate the discussion. The evening will blend great literature, a passionate publisher, and an award-winning translator who believes deeply in the necessity of crossing languages and crossing selves to build global empathy.      Click here for free tickets     Erín Moure is a poet and translator and has published 18 books of poetry, a co-authored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of short articles on translation, two memoirs. She is also translator or co-translator of 19 books of poetry and two of creative nonfiction (biopoetics) from French, Galician, Portunhol, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her work has received the Governor General's Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, A.M. Klein Prize twice, and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize (twice for translations) and a two-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award (USA-Poetry).  Michelle Gil-Montero has translated several books, most recently The Annunciation (Action Books, 2019) and Berlin Interlude (Black Square Editions,coming in 2020) by María Negroni, and This Blue Novel (Action Books, 2016, National Translation Award semi-finalist) and Edinburgh Notebook (Action Books, coming in 2020) by Valerie Mejer Caso. She has been awarded fellowships from the NEA and Howard Foundation, as well as a Fulbright US Scholar's Grant to Argentina, a PEN/Heim Translation Prize, a SUR Translation Support grant, and an Academy of American Poets University Prize. She is the author of Object Permanence (Ornithopter Press, coming in 2020) and Attached Houses (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). She is Associate Professor of English at Saint Vincent College, where she directs the Minor in Literary Translation. She is the publisher of Eulalia Books.   All floors of Alphabet City are wheelchair accessible.  Thanks to the generous support of RAD, we also have hearing assistive systems available for all programs, by advance request.   Click here to contact us about accessibility accommodations   At City of Asylum, we want our events to be welcoming and accessible to all people.   If you have questions or are in need of accommodations, please contact us.     Visit AlphabetCity.org for our full line-up of FREE events!