Derek Walcott, our 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award recipient, was born on this day in 1930. To honour him, his longtime partner Sigrid Nama donated 4000 books from his library to the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in Castries.
Edited by Wiam El Tamami In this special section on self-translation, authors and author-translators Mona Kareem, Khalid Lyamlahy, Deena Mohamed, Dunya Mikhail, and Ali Shakir reflect on what it means to transport their own writing from one of their languages to another. Lyamlahy, who also shares self-translated excerpts from his novel, …
On Tuesday, January 25th at 7:00PM ET, join us for a virtual reading featuring poets Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior. Moderated by Carolyn Forché. About Valzhyna Mort Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press …
We invite you to submit your unpublished work to the “Audacity” issue of Room—an issue we hope will dare to risk normalcy and politeness in the name of bold and uncompromising truth. “Audacity” will be edited by Molly Cross-Blanchard (author of Exhibitionist) and assistant edited by Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros, with shadow editors Ellen Chang-Richardson and Michelle …
The Griffin Poetry Prize is excited to launch Translation Talks, a series of conversations about translation and poetry where shortlisted and winning authors are invited to discuss their craft in company of other poets and translators. Join us on Thursday, January 27th at 7pm ET on Zoom for our first Translation Talks, …