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2015: YOUR LANGUAGE - MY EAR: ֱ and American Poets at Close Quarters, February 26 - 28, 2015


The Twelveth Annual Spring Symposium

Your Language—My Ear: ֱ and American Poets at Close Quarters is an intense workshop on poetic translation that is taking place at the University of Pennsylvania from February 26-28, with support ofUniversity’s Kelly Writers House, Slavic Department, Program in Comparative Literature and a Cross-Cultural Conference Grant sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Public Bilingual Poetry Readings

Friday, February 27, 4 pm - 5:30 pm
Discussion and reception to follow
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust WalkPhiladelphia, PA 19104

Saturday, February 28, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmChapterhouse Cafe, 620 S. 9th StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19147

Public Panels on Topics in Poetry and Translation

Friday, February 27, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmMax Kade Center, 3401 Walnut St, rm. 329APhiladelphia, PA 19104

• Michael Wachtel (Princeton), “Mutilating DeadPoets: Robert Lowell’s Translations from theֱ”
• Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse),“Pseudotranslation” in Contemporary AmericanPoetry”
• Ilya Vinitsky (UPenn), “For the Few: Translationas Initiation”
• Alexandra Petrova (Rome), “Divertissment at theCrossroads”

Saturday, February 28, 1:30 pm - 3:45 pmSingh Center for Nanotechnology3205 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104

• Stephanie Sandler (Harvard), “Retranslating:Skidan, Palmer, Bernstein”
• Shamshad Abdullaev (Fergana, Uzbekistan), “OnePoem by Samuel Beckett” (In ֱ)
• Alexander Skidan (St. Petersburg), “Translationand My Poetic Practice” (in ֱ)
• Kevin M. F. Platt (UPenn), “Translation,Cosmopolitanism and War in Riga”

Featured ֱ language poets, from across the geography of the ֱ-speaking world:
Shamshad Abdullaev (Fergana, Uzbekistan), Polina Barskova (Massachusetts, USA), Keti Chukhrov (Moscow), Alexandra Petrova (Rome), Alexander Skidan (St. Petersburg)

Other participants include poets/scholars/translators:
Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University), Charles Bernstein (UPenn) Julia Bloch (UPenn), Catherine Ciepiela (Amherst College), Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach (UPenn), Sibelan Forrester (Swarthmore), David Hock (Princeton), James McGavran (UPenn), Kevin M. F. Platt (UPenn), Bob Perelman (UPenn), Ariel Resnikoff (UPenn), Stephanie Sandler (Harvard), Bela Shayevich (Philadelphia), Frank Sherlock (Philadelphia), Alexandra Tatarsky (Philadelphia, New York), Val Vinokur (The New School), Michael Wachtel (Princeton), Ilya Vinitsky (Upenn), and Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse)