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Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera and writer and translator Carina del Valle Schorske discuss Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet and translator after Hurricane María and the Puerto Rico protests.
Poetry Inside Out
Poetry Inside Out is a collaborative language arts curriculum that celebrates classroom diversity, builds literacy skills, improves critical thinking, and unlocks creativity by teaching students to translate great poetry from around the world. By practicing the art of translation, students become familiar with the building blocks of language and the full range of expression available to them as readers, writers, speakers, thinkers, and world citizens.
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An interview with Mexican author Amparo Dávila’s co-translators Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson
October 18, 2019 -
Our latest issue of Two Lines features work by international authors whose writing may be new to you but deserves to be read far and wide. Here’s a snapshot of some of the stories and authors whose work you can now read in English translation.
September 20, 2019 -
Keith Donnell Jr., a poet from San Francisco, shares his take on sound, or “found,” translation, a process of translating primarily from sound, rather than meaning.
September 5, 2019
She looked out the porthole: the sea was an inky navy blue, and the boat was softly creaking from side to side. How incredibly different the sea was when you were at the beach swimming in it than when you were aboard a ship looking down at it, hard and impenetrable as a marble tabletop streaked with green.