Nov
9
9:00 AM09:00

ALTA46: [Mis]translation for [Non]translators

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[Mis]translation for [Non]translators, with Stine An, Johannes Göransson, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Aditi Machado, & Kristen Renee Miller

The poet-translators on this panel will reflect on the place of translation within their wider creative and generative practices. Panelists, who have published their experimental translations in outlets including Poetry Magazine, BOMB, The Nation, and elsewhere will read from their work and discuss their experiences developing, publishing (and explaining) these experimental forms. They’ll share some of their favorite tools and techniques including sonic translation, intentional mistranslation, collaborative translation, and use of AI and auto-translate technology. In addition to a Q&A, attendees will be invited to participate in a generative exercise using one or more of these techniques, and may leave with a new experimental translation of their own.

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Mar
24
6:00 PM18:00

KMAC: A 'Found Poetry' Workshop

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"Happy poets who write found poetry go pawing through popular culture like sculptors on trash heaps. They hold and wave aloft usable artifacts and fragments: jingles and ad copy, menus and broadcasts—all objet trouvés." —Annie Dillard

Discover poetry in everyday objects! Join poet and editor Kristen Renee Miller for a 'found poetry' workshop inspired by the sculpture art of Liora Kaplan. Participants will use found texts to inspire new forms, using a variety of materials and techniques including erasure, cento (patchwork), and collage.

Optionally, participants are invited to bring to any 'found text' artifacts they may wish to use: print ads, junk mail, a page from a book or magazine, or other! Art supplies and found texts will also be provided.

Kristen Renee Miller is the director and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books. An award-winning poet and translator, she is a 2023 NEA Fellow and the translator of two books of poetry from the French by Ilnu Nation poet Marie-Andrée Gill.

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Oct
16
10:00 AM10:00

The Axton Series (Workshop)

Virtual workshop; email creative@louisville.edu for an invitation to attend.

(Mis)translation for (Non)translators: a generative poetry workshop!

Translators of poetry use an entire toolbox of techniques to evoke the sound and mood of an original work, in addition to its literal meaning. These techniques can be very generative for writers of poetry as well. Participants in this workshop will engage writing from their senses to produce up to three new poem drafts.

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