POETRY EVENT/NEWS - NYC

An ABC of Translating Poetry   In this essay, translator Willis Barnstone provides current and prospective poetry translators with his alphabet of translation essentials. Read his twenty-six tips, suggestions, and observations on the process of rediscovering and recreating a work of verse in a different language.

Poets Forum Tickets on Sale   Join us and our Board of Chancellors for a weekend of readings, lectures, conversations, and receptions from October 8 to 10. Early-bird tickets are now available through September 15. Save 20% and have your name entered to win an additional ticket to A Reading by the Academy of American Poets Chancellors.

Watch Arthur Sze discuss the importance of poetry in translation. Read Edward Hirsch on translation from A Poet’s Glossary. Watch Rigoberto González read poems from Unpeopled Eden.