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Fragments of a Vessel: An Evening of Poetry in Translation
Maria Goldverg, Camil0 Roldan, Kit Schluter, Sho Sugita, Ken L. Walker
Saturday, May 10 – 8pm
Please join us in recognizing the fragments of a greater language at Wendy’s Subway. Translations from French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese.
Maria Goldverg studied poetry at Bard, and she has gone on to edit nonfiction for a book publisher in Manhattan by day, sometimes translate by night, and hardly ever write poems anymore. She hails from Moscow.
Camilo Roldán is a poet and translator who lives in Brooklyn, NY. From 2011 through 2013 he co-curated the Triptych Reading Series and is currently editor-in-chief for DIEZ. Among other journals, his work has most recently appeared in Mandorla, West Wind Review, Lungfull!, and Sun’s Skeleton. A new chapbook, La Torre, is forthcoming from Well Greased Press.
Kit Schluter is translator of Marcel Schwob’s Book of Monelle (Wakefield), Jaime Saenz’ The Cold (Circumference), Clamenç Llansana’s Occitan Goliard Songs (Anomalous), and with Jocelyn Spaar, Amandine André’s Circle of Dogs (Paper Nautilus). With Andrew Dieck and Francesca Capone, he edits O’clock Press. His recent writings can be found in Boston Review, Elective Affinities, Inpatient, BOMB, and The Disinhibitor. Kit lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he curates the monthly reading series Wild Combination, much to his delight.
Sho Sugita is working on compiling and translating the Collected Works of Hirato Renkichi. His poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in 6×6, Asymptote, Chicago Review, Lana Turner, Paperbag, Poems by Sunday, VOLT, Washington Square, as well as a booklet from DIEZ. He is leaving Brooklyn to find the hot springs of the Japanese Alps.
Ken L. Walker lives in Brooklyn but carries a Kentucky driver’s license in his wallet. He is the author of the chapbook Twenty Glasses of Water (DIEZ Press) and more of his work can be found in Bright Pink Mosquito, Sink Review, The Seattle Review, Washington Square, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Lumberyard, the anthology Oil & Water (Typecast) and Boston Review. He was the features editor for Coldfront magazine from 2008 to 2012 and now curates the conversation project, Cosmot.
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