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Reading the World Podcast 10: Edith Grossman

January 20, 2012 by Erica Mena

After a hiatus, the Reading the World Podcast is thrilled to be back with the support of the University of California Irvine’s International Center for Writing and Translation. In this new episode, translator Edith Grossman talks about her recent book Why Translation Matters, her translations of Luis de Gongora’s Soledades (The Solitudes) and her forthcoming translation, The Depths of Time by Antonio Muñoz Molina. Last April during (but unrelated to) PEN World Voices, I (Erica Mena) had the great pleasure of meeting with Edith Grossman. Edith Grossman, in […]

Categories: Podcasts • Tags: anna guercio, anna rosen guercio, edith grossman, erica mena, interview, literary translation, podcast, Reading the World, reading the world podcast, Three Percent, translation

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Reading the World #9: Martha Collins

March 28, 2011 by Erica Mena

Erica Mena (that’s me!) and special co-host Mike Schorsch talk with translator and poet Martha Collins about translation as political action, and translation of Vietnamese poetry. Martha is an amazing poet, my first translation workshop teacher, and big influence in my work and in my life. We recorded this last year (!) at AWP in Denver, and it was such a treat to get to talk with her about her work. This is one of my favorite podcasts to date, […]

Categories: Podcasts • Tags: Martha Collins, podcast, poetry, political poetry, Reading the World, translation, Vietnam, Vietnamese poetry

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Reading The World #8

March 14, 2011 by Erica Mena

I’ve been woefully bad about posting all the interesting things I’ve been up to lately because of the imminent launch of my new journal/press Anomalous Press but the latest Reading the World went up a little bit ago. In this one I talk with translator Mark Schafer about his translations of David Huerta’s poetry and his new translation out from City Lights, The Scale of Maps by Bélen Gopegui. Listen to it in iTunes here. Or stream it on Three […]

Categories: Podcasts • Tags: Bélen Gopegui, City Lights, David Huerta, Mark Schafer, poetry, Reading the World, Three Percent, translation

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Reading the World #7 – Fady Joudah

January 13, 2011 by Erica Mena

The latest episode of Reading the World is finally up, you can listen on Three Percent or through ITunes. This episode of the Reading the World Podcast, with the wonderful Annie Janusch filling in for Chad Post, features Fady Joudah, Palestinian-American poet, physician, and translator. He won the Yale Younger Poets Competition in 2007 for his collection The Earth in the Attic (Yale) and was just awarded the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award for Translation for his rendition of Mahmoud […]

Categories: Podcasts • Tags: Fady Joudah, Mahmoud Darwish, podcast, poetry, Reading the World, Three Percent, translation

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Reading the World 6: Forrest Gander

September 10, 2010 by Erica Mena

The new Reading the World podcast is out! In the first of only a few that we recorded at this year’s AWP convention in Denver, Colorado, Annie Janusch and I talk with Forrest Gander about his upcoming translation of Pura López Colmé’s book Watchword, translating from languages you don’t read, the compulsion to translate and more. You can download it from the ITunes store (and subscribe to the series) or you can listen to it streaming at Three Percent.

Categories: Podcasts • Tags: Annie Janusch, Forrest Gander, prose poetry, Reading the World, Three Percent, translation

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