The Edmonton Poetry Festival

Try Your Tongue at Translation

Wrap it around

Saturday April 24, 2010
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Stanley Milner Library
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square

Event Details

Are you writing poems that you’d like to have translated into English? Are you an English-language poet who would like to have your poem translated into another language? This workshop provides an opportunity for poets from different languages to bring a poem (around 10 lines) and share the challenge of making words live in another tongue.

Guest poets from Found in Translation will be on hand to help with the process from the We’ll select several of the poems/translations to be performed Saturday night at the festival gala.

This workshop is free, but space is limited. Sign up in advance here.

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Poetry Festival 2010

The Edmonton Poetry Festival: Found in Translation runs from April 19 to 25, 2010.

Select an event --- Monday April 19 --- Killer Blinks --- Tuesday April 20 --- Girls Night Out Poetry Slam Semi Finals --- Wednesday April 21 --- Literary Cocktails Talonbooks Launch Party Poetry in Spirit The Raving Poets --- Thursday April 22 --- Poetry Central Book Chat Writers Guild Poetry Awards Party Poetry Slam Finals --- Friday April 23 --- Poetry Central Book Chat See This, Hear Me Words and Music with Ian Ferrier Hip Hop Night --- Saturday April 24 --- Ian Ferrier Workshop Sound Poetry Workshop Poetry Central Found in Translation: A Sharing Try Your Tongue at Translation The Poetry Sweatshop Findings: The Poetry Party --- Sunday April 25 --- Poetry Central Writer's Corner The Cafe Readings --- Tuesday April 27 --- Dektet Launch (Frontenac House)

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