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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Contemporary Translation: Matvei Yankelevich & Rosa Alcalá

Saturday, Apr. 23, 2016

02:00 PM
US/Central

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Guests are invited to join innovative translators Matvei Yankelevich and Rosa Alcalá in a reading of their recent work, followed by a conversation on the art of translation, with each other and the audience, moderated by poet, visual scholar, and UH Creative Writing faculty Roberto Tejada. Yankelevich translated Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharmsand co-translated the National Translation Award-winning An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky. Among many others, Alcalá translated Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña, which was a runner-up for the 2013 PEN Award for Translation.

The event is co-sponsored by Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. 

About the Artist Talk

Matvei Yankelevich is the author of Alpha Donut (United Artists), Boris by the Sea (Octopus), and Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt, recently released by Black Square Editions. He is the translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, and co-translator of the National Translation Award-winning An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky. He is a co-founder of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective, which publishes poetry, translation, and Emergency INDEX, an annual anthology of performance art documentation. He currently teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Queens College, and Bard College.

Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator originally from Paterson, NJ. She has published two books of poetry, Undocumentaries (2010) and The Lust of Unsentimental Waters (2012), both from Shearsman Books. A third poetry collection, M(y) Other Tongue, is forthcoming from Futurepoem Books. Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012), edited and translated by Alcalá, was a runner-up for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. A recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship, Alcalá is Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at The University of Texas-El Paso.

About Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
Founded by Philip Lopate and Donald Bartheleme in 1986, Gulf Coast is a journal of literature, art, and critical writing, publishing contributors who represent a flow of international cultures, voices, and aesthetics. Through programs and publications, and in collaboration with the University of Houston, Gulf Coast brings consequential art and writing to an engaged audience.

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