Sholeh Wolpe's guest appearances

Sholeh Wolpe

Poetry on the Move podcast

Literary Series

The PEN Pod

Barack Obama

Kevin Young

Lynn Nottage

Karin Slaughter

George Saunders

Bari Weiss

Gregory Pardlo

Jamie Metzl

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Lisa Jewell

Mike Pence

Bernardine Evaristo

Yiyun Li

Charles Yu

Natalie Diaz

OwlTail

Nathalie Handal

Two poets and writers discuss the power of literature at a moment like ours; how writing about diaspora and dislocation are powerful tools in the literary arsenal; and what they're telling their students about writing amid a pandemic. Sholeh Wolpe and Nathalie Handal join us for an extended conversation in this edition of The PEN Pod.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/support

Two poets and writers discuss the power of literature at a moment like ours; how writing about diaspora and dislocation are powerful tools in the literary arsenal; and what they're telling their students about writing amid a pandemic. Sholeh Wolpe and Nathalie Handal join us for an extended conversation in this edition of The PEN Pod.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/message</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/support</a>

Episode 97: A Time To Be More Fearless with Sholeh Wolpe and Nathalie Handal

Keijiro Suga

BothSholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is ascholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularlytranslates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé's translationsfrom Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad,and the new translation of Attar's Persian classic The Conference of Birds)have opened the rich tradition of Persian poetry to readers in English. In thisdiscussion, hosted by Australian poet Melinda Smith, we asked them to speaktogether about the "art" of translating poetry

Both Sholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is a scholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularly translates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé's translations from Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, and the new translation of Attar's Persian classic The Conference of Birds) have opened the rich tradition of Persian poetry to readers in English. In this discussion, hosted by Australian poet Melinda Smith, we asked them to speak together about the "art" of translating poetry

POTM Episode 19 – Poet to Poet Keijiro Suga and Sholeh Wolpe

Award-winning Iranian-American poet and author - Internationally known as a literary translator - reads selections from her work and underscores the importance of global awareness and of crossing language and cultural boundries.

A Reading by Sholeh Wolpe