Translation Workshop with Margaret Randall
October 23, 9:30 AM (coffee and bagels), 10:00 to 11:30 AM (workshop)
Room 5414, CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to all CUNY students interested in poetry creation and literary translation. Friends of the Center and Lost & Found are welcome to register.
Join legendary poet, translator, activist, and oral historian Margaret Randall for a free workshop on the art of translation. Randall will start by discussing her wide-ranging personal experience with translation followed by a brief Q&A for participants’ questions. Then we will collectively read and discuss translations from ONLY THE ROAD / SOLO EL CAMINO: EIGHT DECADES OF CUBAN POETRY (which will be provided for participants), an anthology which was edited, introduced, and translated by Randall, and named one of the best translations of 2016 by World Literature Today. Finally, participants will take part in short translation exercises together.
Free and open to all CUNY graduate and undergraduate students, especially those interested in poetry creation and literary translation. Friends of the Center and Lost & Found are welcome to register. Free copies of the books will be provided for participants and there will be free coffee and bagels provided from 9:30AM to 10 AM.
The occasion will also celebrate Margaret Randall’s new Lost & Found Mouth to Word publication AND, OF COURSE, BY STRUGGLE: An Interview with Margaret Randall by Judah Rubin.
This workshop will work best for people who have a working knowledge of Spanish.
About Margaret Randall
Margaret Randall is a poet, writer, translator, photographer, and activist who has lived in New York, Mexico City, Havana, Cuba, Managua, Nicaragua, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, with short stays in North Vietnam and Lima, Peru. Her time in these places often coincided with major sociopolitical upheavals or pivotal historic moments. She edited an important bilingual literary magazine for eight years out of Mexico City El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn and has known some of the great minds of her generation. When she returned to the United States, the US government ordered her deported because of opinions expressed in some of her books, and she was forced to wage a five-year battle for restoration of citizenship. Randall is the recipient of numerous international awards and the author of over 200 books.
This workshop is hosted and presented by Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative from the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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