Join us for our second annual translation event! Three writers will share their experiences from choosing the text through the translation process and publication. They will discuss the choices they make in their work and how language, culture, and time period affects the final work.

Indran Amirthanayagam has published twenty five books of poetry, including the Paterson Prize winner The Elephants of Reckoning. His new books are Seer (Hanging Loose Press) and The Runner's Almanac (Spuyten Duyvil). He writes in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He publishes poetry at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com). He hosts The Poetry Channel on youtube.

Jona Colson is Queer poet, educator, and translator. His poetry collection, Said Through Glass, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. He is also the translator of Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero and the co-editor of This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry and Fiction from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (2021). His poems, translations, and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. He is co-president of Washington Writers’ Publishing House and edits the bi-weekly journal, WWPH Writes. He is a professor of ESL at Montgomery College and lives in Washington, D.C.

Katherine E. Young is the author of the poetry collections Woman Drinking Absinthe and Day of the Border Guards (2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist) and the editor of Written in Arlington. She has translated work by Anna Starobinets (memoir), Akram Aylisli (fiction), and numerous Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. Awards include the Granum Foundation Translation Prize, the Pushkin House Translation Residency, an Arlington County (Virginia) Individual Artist Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship, and a Hawthornden fellowship. From 2016-2018, she served as the inaugural Poet Laureate for Arlington, Virginia.

This event is free but registration is required. Click here to register for the Zoom link.