EVENT – Wednesday, April 27, 2011: Reading the World w/ Thomas Pletzinger & Ross Benjamin
Our final Reading the World event of the spring is coming up next Wednesday, April 27, in Rochester. (This event is not to be confused, by the way, with another that we have scheduled quickly thereafter on May 2. That event is our contribution to the PEN World Voices Tour, and we’ll be posting all the info on that ...
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Aron Aji
Where: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625, Boston University Aji presents Maker of the Song He Sang: Translating Bilge Karasu’s Turkish. Part of Boston University’s Lecture Series in Literary Translation. All lectures are free and open to the public. A discussion will follow the presentation. For ...
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Ernesto Cardenal Reading Tour
Where: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI at the UWM Golda Meir Library, Conference Center (Fourth Floor), 2311 E. Hartford Avenue The tour coincides with the release of Cardenal’s latest work The Origin of Species and Other Poems. The acclaimed poet will be reading from his new collection at this presentation. ...
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MLA on Evaluating Translations
Following on the 2009 Convention’s “Focus on Translation,” the MLA1 has just released an official statement on Evaluating Translations as Scholarship. Overall, this is a pretty interesting document, both because it helps establish some guidelines for assessing translations in “personnel decisions ...
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In Europe
In Europe is a heart wrenching, historically priceless, and utterly fascinating work of nonfiction. Part travelogue, part historical narrative, and part autobiography, it chronicles Dutch journalist Geert Mak’s year-long sojourn from January 1999–December 1999 around the European continent as a sort of “final ...
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PEN: Revolutionaries in the Arab World
Where: 92nd Street Y, Unterberg Poetry Center, 1395 Lexington Ave., New York City This panel will explore the sweeping political changes in the Arab world. Hear from experts and on-the-ground bloggers how social media and citizen journalism galvanize the revolution. In the borderless world of the Internet, where ...
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Ernesto Cardenal Reading Tour
Where: Loyola University, Baltimore, MD in the Library Auditorium The tour coincides with the release of Cardenal’s latest work The Origin of Species and Other Poems. The acclaimed poet will be reading from his new collection at this presentation. Please contact Thomas Ward with questions. (e) ...
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