AWP 2021 Panel: Carrying Pollen from Exile to Exile—International Journals and Translation
9:10 am PT | 10:10 am MT | 11:10 am CT | 12:10 pm ET
Virtual Event
AWP looks different this year, but here’s where you can (virtually) find us if you’re attending.
Panel: Carrying Pollen from Exile to Exile—International Journals and Translation
Thursday, March 4 | 9:10-10:10 Pacific Time
Calico Series Editor Sarah Coolidge joins Marcela Sulak, Wayne Miller, Eilis O’Neal, and Geoffrey Brock to consider the role of translation and the literary communities curated through international journals in an age of massive displacement of populations. For example, translation preserves and shares stories hidden in source languages while renewing the target language. But what do we look for in translation submissions? What do we mean by, and how do we achieve, diversity? How does one evaluate works from various aesthetic traditions with distinct goals and values in an age of crisis?
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Sarah Coolidge (they/she) is a queer editor and musician based in Oakland. They have worked at the Center for over a decade, serving as editor of the Two Lines journal before launching the Calico Series in 2020. They’ve had the honor of working with countless translators they admire and have edited work by Mariana Enriquez, Iman Mersal, Pirkko Saisio, Dorothy Tse, Wilson Bueno, and Elena Garro, among others.