About this Event
Please join World Poetry at NYU Center for Humanities for Colloquy 21: Experimental Translation with Mónica de la Torre, Robert Fitterman, M.L. Martin. This event will feature iterative translation, English to English translation, and self-translation, among other genre-defying modes. We will ask what defines the act of translation, how can we expand this understanding, and where the lines exist between translation and "original" writing.
Mónica de la Torre is the author of seven books of poetry, of which the most recent is Pause the Document. Others include Repetition Nineteen, which centers on experimental translation and The Happy End/All Welcome, a riff on a riff on Kafka's Amerika.. She has translated poetry by authors such as Amanda Berenguer, Omar Cáceres, Ana Hatherly, Lila Zemborain, Gerardo Deniz, and Ana Cristina Cesar. Her co-edited anthologies include Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (2020) and Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (2002).
Robert Fitterman is the author of 16 books of poetry. His most recent book, Creve Coeur, is a long poem recently published with Winter Editions (2024). Other titles include: This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse), No, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. (Ugly Duckling Presse), Nevermind (Wonder Books) and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). He has collaborated with several visual artists, including Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Sabine Herrmann, Natalie Czech, Tim Davis, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective, Collective Task www.collectivetask.org. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University.
M.L. Martin is an interdisciplinary poet and translator who makes books, performances, installations, and sound art. Their current work, W&E: a refracted translation of ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’ (Action Books), aims to recover a radical ancient text to the feminist, queer, and experimental canons to which it belongs. Their work appears in the Best Literary Translations 2026 anthology, as well as Black Warrior Review, Brooklyn Rail, The Capilano Review, Columbia Journal, The Literary Review, Poetry, and many other American, Canadian, and Australian literary journals. Martin is the Poetry Editor for Asymptote and the founder of the Translation Now! Symposium.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
20 Cooper Sq, 20 Cooper Square, New York, United States
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