Around the Coyote Arts Festival

Literary Programming at the Chopin Theatre
Curated by Kristi McGuire 

ADOPTION / adaptation (the Role of the Translator)
4p Oct 13th
$10

Comparative poetics and translation studies are two fields whose burgeoning powers have sparked the interest of writers and thinkers in the conceptual bounds of culture for years and years. This literary exhibition picks up on growing interest in this exciting discourse by featuring several readings of work in translation and one narrative adaptation-each showcasing the role of the translator in using her language to create a boundary between subject and reader. 

Jennifer Scappettone is the author of From Dame Quickly (poems, forthcoming from Litmus Press) and is at work on Exit 43, a cross-genre work commissioned by Atelos. Her translations of Amelia Rosselli have appeared in APR, GAMMM, Circumference, and elsewhere and are being collected as Locomotrix:  Selected Poems of Amelia Rosselli; she is now curating a special issue of Aufgabe devoted to contemporary Italian poetry. She teaches at the University of Chicago.

John Tipton is the author of surfaces (Flood Editions, 2004). His translation of Sophocles' Ajax is forthcoming from Flood. He is the director of the Chicago Poetry Project.

Robert P. Baird is the co-editor of Chicago Review and is currently at work on a novel. Specimens of his prose and photography may be found at digitalemunction.com. 

V. Joshua Adams is the managing editor of Chicago Review. His essays and reviews have been published in Chicago Review and Harvard Review, among other publications.