Exploring Poetry’s Geographies with Katherine Hedeen, Zoë Skoulding, Victor Rodriguez Núñez, & Michelle Gil-Montero

This program presents an engaging and unique panel, comprised of the minds behind Poetry’s Geographies: A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations. This anthology, featuring some of the most prominent poet-translators from both sides of the Atlantic, radically foregrounds the role of translators as bridge-builders and activists, with a crucial role in revealing the structures through which poetry moves and circulates. Born amid the shutting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Poetry’s Geographies celebrates the community of translation. The anthology is organized around the translators (rather than the poets), with essays discussing the poetics and politics of their translations. Instead of adhering to a roadmap laid out by pre-existing works, this anthology forms unruly geographical lines of connection rather than underscoring existing national canons. As a result, Poetry’s Geographies is able to shape new understandings of contemporary poetry’s transnational commitments.

Purchase your own copy of Poetry’s Geographies: A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations at City of Asylum Bookstore.