“I’ve been dreaming of a wedding since the splash of / the first wet ink”
Read moreLit & Found: Yasmine Seale Translates Ibn Hazm
Yesterday on Twitter, poet-translator Yasmine Seale announced: “I’m thrilled to be translating Tawq al-Hamama, the great book on love from medieval Cordoba—a jewel of observation and a window on the intimate life of Muslim Spain—for @LibraryArabLit. It survives thanks to a single manuscript. It has many poems.”
Read moreNew Poetry: Three Poems by Rana al-Tonsi
Sunday Submissions: Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation
The annual Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation is open for entries until July 15.
Read moreApril Translation Challenge: Konafa v. Qatayef
For our most recent Translation Challenge, hosted by Adam Talib, participants tried their hand at translating an 1882 text on taxation by ʿAbd Allāh an-Nadīm, and the results were “cruel […]
Read moreSunday Submissions: Action Books Open Reading Period
US publisher Action Books is inviting submissions of poetry in translation through March 2022.
Read moreLit & Found: Five Poems by French-Algerian Poet Souad Labbize
“I don’t know what to make
of the reasons to love you
an early season
begins and ends
in the midst of another
we don’t even have to
change our clothes”
Lit & Found: David Larsen on Translation ‘As a Constraint-based Form of Writing’
“As part of a series on poetry and translation for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books blog, scholar and translator of pre-modern Arabic literature David Larsen delves into the conjunction that joins translation with poetry, the and between them.”
Read moreNajwan Darwish and the Politics/Poetics of Translating Exhaustion
“Translators of Palestinian poetry, in addition to untangling the poetics of pain (or in our case, exhaustion), carry the additional burden of making people listen.”
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