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philoSOPHIA Forum on Translation: Cycles of Engendered/Endangered Contemporaneity in Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway Poems

I’m grateful and pleased not only to have my own work in the latest issue of philoSOPHIA, but also to share space with the writer and artist Han Bo alongside scholars and translators Sun Dong, Yuan Gao, Yuming Piao, and Yizhong Ning in a special forum focused on Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway 《中东铁路》 cycle of […]

Meditations in an Emergency: The Cosmopolitan, the Quotidian, and the Anthropocene Turn in Sun Dong’s 2020 Pandemic Poetry

This past July I spent two weeks in the mountain village of Chenjiapu translating a set of poems by the Nanjing-based poet Sun Dong. She was able to join me for a few days toward the end of the residency, and we worked together on drafts of the translations. I finished the residency with drafts of two dozen poems […]

POLLEN METH WEAPONS: Glitch translations, mistranslations, this translation’s ______

  I love scanning errors — errors produced by scanners — in general, and right now in particular I love the ones I’m hitting in the Penguin Kindle edition of Antigone (tr. Robert Fagles), which I’ve been reading because we’ll be kicking off the semester with a big discussion of Sophocles’ 2,454-year-old tragedy next week as part of freshman orientation. Here’s […]

A Good Poem (A Found Poem) | 好诗 (找到的诗)

  click pic for big | 这是诗     As poetry Nair dry cleaning franchise chain’s most loyal fans, dry cleaners in the decision to open at the same time I wanted to joina good poemNair.   作为诗奈尔连锁干洗加盟 最忠诚的 粉丝,在决定开 干洗店的同时我就想好了 要加盟诗奈尔。 

Zhai Yongming with Andrea Lingenfelter reading at James Cohan tomorrow!

Salon 383: Sound & Sense— Composer/sound artist Yin Yi; Gu Ling on Chinese poetry and translation; poetry by Hai An

Monika and I are pleased to announce that the second event in our Salon 383 series will be held this Sunday, February 12 from 3 – 5pm. Salon 383 seeks to create a space for artists, writers, designers, musicians and critics to present their work in a warm, informal atmosphere followed by discussion among the artists and audience members. On Sunday, we’ll […]