brindin – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:15:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Where You Can Get Your International Poetry Fix /College/translation/threepercent/2009/09/28/where-you-can-get-your-international-poetry-fix/ /College/translation/threepercent/2009/09/28/where-you-can-get-your-international-poetry-fix/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:48:59 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2009/09/28/where-you-can-get-your-international-poetry-fix/ I don’t read nearly as much international poetry as I do prose, but for those of you out there who are more lyrically inclined, here are two sites worth exploring:

is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year, and over that time has compiled a damn impressive database of poems from around the world translated into several languages. And in addition to simply cataloging thousands of poems (to be more exact: “580 poets and 5300 poems in 49 languages” as well as “6400 translations in 48 languages”), there are audio recordings of a lot of the poems, so you can both read and hear the poetry . . .

I just found out about via The site isn’t the most high tech, but there’s a lot of content here, and the poems are translated from (and into) several different languages. Also interesting cataloging scheme that includes a section of

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