THE POET / TRANSLATOR READING SERIES
Since 2013, the Poet/Translator Reading Series has showcased creative writers reading from their own work alongside works that they have translated — to striking effect. In 2014, the series expanded to feature students of the Literary Translation Workshop at The New School. The readings have featured writer-translators working from Arabic, Modern Hebrew, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Albanian, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish, Odia, and Ukrainian.
UPCOMING BOOK LAUNCH:
ANNIE KANTAR AT THE NEW SCHOOL
Thursday, September 7, 2023, 6:00PM
65 W 11th St, Wollman Hall
Poetry Book Launch and Small Press Discussion
Join Poets & Traitors Press (and founding editor and MFA poetry coordinator Val Vinokur), Johnny Lorenz, and Mia Perez for a reading and discussion about poetry and small-press publishing with Annie Kantar, their newest author/translator from Jerusalem, and the author of Means to Be Lucky: Poems and Translations.
Annie Kantar’s work has appeared in The American Literary Review, Barrow Street, Bennington Review, Birmingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Literary Imagination, On the Seawall, Plume Anthology 9, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Rattle, Smartish Pace, Tikkun, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Her translation from the Hebrew of With This Night, the final collection of poetry that Leah Goldberg published during her lifetime, appeared with University of Texas Press (2011), and was shortlisted for the ALTA Translation Prize. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Fulbright Scholarship, she recently published her literary translation of The Book of Job (Koren, 2021).
Presented by the Creative Writing Program at the Schools of Public Engagement.
PAST BOOK LAUNCHES
Book launch for Olga Livshin's A Life Replaced supported by Val Vinokur, Johnny Lorenz, and Ahmad Al-Ashqar.
October 13, 2019 / KGB Bar
Poet-Translator Val Vinokur introduces and reads from his new book, Relative Genitive.
Readers: Val Vinokur, Olga Livshin, Albert Mobilio, and Olena Jennings
May 16, 2019 / Berl's Books
Poets & Traitors Press raises a glass to a great first year! Readers: Ahmad Al-Ashqar, Johnny Lorenz, and Val Vinokur.
POETS & TRAITORS AT UNNAMEABLE: VAL VINOKUR & JOHNNY LORENZ
Poet-Translators Johnny Lorenz & Val Vinokur perform their own work and their translations of Mario Quintana, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel, and Clarice Lispector, as Poets & Traitors Press launches Lorenz's "Education by Windows: Poems with Translations from Mario Quintana" and Vinokur's "Relative Genitive: Poems with Translations from Osip Mandelstam and Vladimir Mayakovsky."
September 29, 2018 / Unnameable Books
BOOK LAUNCH: VAL VINOKUR & JOHNNY LORENZ
Poet-Translators Val Vinokur & Johnny Lorenz perform their own work and their translations of Mario Quintana, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel, and Clarice Lispector, as Poets & Traitors Press launches Lorenz's "Education by Windows: Poems with Translations from Mario Quintana" and Vinokur's "Relative Genitive: Poems with Translations from Osip Mandelstam and Vladimir Mayakovsky."
September 8, 2018 / Molasses Books
Readers: Lauren Routt, Giada Scodellaro, Julia Curl, Gili Ostfield, Anneliese Cooper, Yasmin Zaher, Ivan Brave, Val Vinokur
December 18, 2017 / Hullabaloo Books
A celebration and exploration of literary translation around the university and beyond.
December 1, 2017 / The New School
Readers: Jess Ortiz, Jose Garcia, Ludo Mauri, Mica Cimet Shoijet, Ruwa Alhayek, Mark Siciu, Yasmin Zaher, Ivan Brave, Miriam Vergara, Carl-David Parson, Paloma Broussal-Lanusse
December 14, 2016 / Hullabaloo Books
Readers: Marshall Malin, Ludovica Mauri, Kira Metcalf-Oshinsky, Ahmad Al-Ashqar, Artrit Bytyci, Jose Garcia, Robert Tanner, Eugene Rabina
May 11, 2016 / Hullabaloo Books
Readers: Marshall Malin, Zack Rizzo, Julia Tolo, Jenn Cole, Siyu Chen, Tatiana Serafina, Chang Yao, Caitlin Killion
December 15, 2014 / Molasses Books
POET / TRANSLATOR IV
Readers: Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Vladislav Davidzon, Val Vinokur
November 16, 2013 / Molasses Books
Readers: Tony Anemone, Kevin Kinsella, Ainslie Morse, Bela Shayevich, Val Vinokur
September 14, 2013 / Molasses Books
POET/ TRANSLATOR II
Readers: Val Vinokur, Matvei Yankelevich, David Stromberg, Ian Dreiblatt
June 19, 2013 / Molasses Books
Readers: Val Vinokur, Eugene Ostashevsky, Margarita Shalina, Johnny Lorenz
May 22, 2013 / Molasses Books