Emerging Translators at World Poetry Books: A Conversation on Joyce Mansour and Zuzanna Ginczanka

C. Francis Fisher is a poet and translator. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in The New England Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books among others. Her poem, “Self-Portrait at 25” was selected as the winner for the 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize for Columbia University. Her first book of translations, In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, is forthcoming with World Poetry Books in 2024.

Alex Braslavsky is a poet, translator, and scholar. She is a doctorate student in the Slavic Department at Harvard University, where she writes scholarship on Polish, Czech, and Russian poetry through a comparative poetics lens. Her dissertation centers on women who write poetry into their old age. Her translations of poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka were released with World Poetry Books in February of 2023. Her poems appear and are forthcoming in The Columbia Review, Conjunctions, and Colorado Review, among other journals.

Sponsored by: The Department of World Languages & Literatures, The Department of Romance Studies, The BU Poetry Reading Series, The Associate Dean of the Faculty for Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, The Center for European Studies, LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff, The BU Arts Initiative

When 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm on Friday, March 29, 2024
Building CAS, 725 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 306
Fees Free
Speakers C. Francis Fisher and Alex Braslavsky