[New York, NY]

Bilingual Poetry Reading with Matvei Yankelevich
March 20, 2019, 6:00 pm
at Hunter College West

YOUR LANGUAGE MY EAR is a translation symposium that brings together Russian and American poets, along with American scholars, translators and students of Russian poetry, for intensive translation of contemporary poetry from Russian to English and vice versa at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University.

Its innovative practice involves virtual collaboration on draft translations via a document cloud, involving multiple participants who each bring their own unique skills to bear—from bilingual scholars, students and translators, to poets who may speak only one language, and everything in between. After some months of this virtual labor, the physical gathering brings everyone together over a number of days to work in small groups to perfect these draft translations, and to present them in readings to the public. The first two rounds of the symposium (in 2011 and 2015) have resulted in multiple publications in books and poetry journals. This year, after a week-long workshop and public readings in Philadelphia and elsewhere, YLME comes to Hunter College and New York City!

Facebook event here.