Welcome
Portland, Oregon
Two Lines Press is going to AWP in Portland! Here’s where you can find us:
March 28 | 9:00 am
March 29 | 7:00 pm
The Future of Translation: A PARTY with , The Literary Review, and Arkansas International
March 30 | 3:00 pm
Property of the Imagination: Caribbean Literature in Translation
And don’t forget to come say hi at BOOTH 6048!
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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In this conversation between translators Eleanor Goodman and Lucas Klein from Two Lines 30: The Future of Translation, they touch on issues in the field including the blurring of the distinction between writer and translator, between original work and translation.
March 21, 2019 -
On translating Dana Grigorcea’s An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence.
March 18, 2019 -
In Heather Cleary’s essay for Two Lines 30: The Future of Translation, she underscores the importance of collaboration to the art of translation. In addition to collaborations between co-translators and between translator and editor, Cleary points to the emergence of translator collectives and suggests them as a model for the future of translation. The following is an excerpt from her essay.
March 14, 2019
One of them was called Mandelbaum (almond tree) and the other Birnbaum (pear tree). Somewhere in the smoke-filled room there was also a Kirschbaum (cherry tree) and an Apfelbaum (apple tree). A veritable orchard in the fumes of alcohol, the reek of beer and belching!