the guest
The Guest, a monthly column on poetry translation, was published by Palette Poetry from Spring 2020 to Spring 2022.
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The Guest #23
On the finances (or lack thereof!) of literary translation, especially poetry.
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The Guest #22
An elegy for Indiana Dib and a tribute to loving connectedness across space and time.
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The Guest #21
An interview with Chloe Martinez on the devotional poems of Mirabai and their long-breathed influence on her own poems.
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The Guest #20
An interview with Kit Schluter on nineteenth-century French poetry as an influence on his collection Pierrot's Fingernails.
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The Guest #19
An interview with Chamini Kulathunga on terms of endearment, what's kept secret, and translating from Sri Lankan Sinhalese.
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The Guest #18
An interview with Emma Rault on sonnets, finding a way "in," and translating from Dutch.
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The Guest #17
An interview with Jennifer Shyue on audience, intimate names, and translating Asian-Peruvian poets.
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The Guest #15
An interview with Ottilie Mulzet on silence, listening, and translating from Hungarian and Mongolian.