2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

During these specific times in the United States, what does it mean to have voices in translation by poets whose soul language is one other than English and who translate from it into English, their second language? Bilingual poet Jean-Dany Joachim and multilingual poet María Luisa Arroyo, New England Poetry Club Advisory Board members, invite participants to join their conversation with acclaimed poets and translators Rhina Espaillat and María José Giménez about what drives them to translate the works of other poets into English? How do they negotiate the complex dynamics of generating poems in one’s first language and then rendering them into English? Each poet will give a brief reading before the fruitful, thought-provoking discussion geared towards U.S. bilingual and multilingual poets as listeners and contributors to this timely discussion.

Link to recording:  https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/X3McF1yiSlyKQDm3Wp3i8zr-Wx2iFE2oDo3zDXwfvpmI3XeS_Nt6dctCPwT37ZwG.iClIkof9v6ObKv4g