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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 #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 Translation Podcast

February 5, 2010 by Erica Mena

Short and sweet: the podcast I’ve been working on with Chad Post of Open Letter Books for the past few months launched! The first episode which is available now is a conversation we had with Lawrence Venuti at MLA in December about his translations of Catalan poet Ernest Farrés’s book Edward Hopper (which I reviewed earlier for Three Percent). We also talked about publishing and poetry and some other great stuff. It’s available now through ITunes to listen and subscribe, […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Chad Post, Edward Hopper, Ernest Farres, Lawrence Venuti, podcast, poetry, Reading the World, review, Three Percent, translation

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