a poet depicted in black and white, long straight hair, smiling before a window; a second poet cuddling two small grey dogs, the poet's mustache pronounced and a multi-color shirt, face in profile

Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and Shook, at Medicine for Nightmares

Saturday, May 06
Event Time 03:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Cost Free and open to the public
Location Medicine for Nightmares, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco
Contact Email poetry@sfsu.edu

Overview

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  • Tune in to the video livestream

The Poetry Center, in conjunction with Tripwirea journal of poetics, and together with our friends at Medicine for Nightmares, presents this latest program in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series. Our honored guests are Alana Marie Levinson-Labrosse and Shook, prolific poet-translators whose work is devoted to persecuted languages and endangered literatures, with an emphasis on a relational, not extractive, approach to translation. They are joined by their friend and co-worker Zêdan Xelef, poet-translator and presently graduate student in the MFA writing program at SF State, as interlocutor and representative of The Poetry Center. Please join us!

This event is free and open to the public.

Now in its fifth year, the annual Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series focuses on cultural and poetic work seen from outside narrow nation-state points of view, presenting poets and related artists often deeply engaged in the poetics and politics of translation and offering models for practice.

(Details soon)

Video, other programs in the series:

Etel Adnan, a Memorial Tribute: May 14, 2022

Momtaza Mehri and Zoé Samudzi: March 13, 2021

Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán, and Friends: November 8, 2019

Cardboard House Press: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán: November 7, 2019

Antena: Jen Hofer and John Pluecker: September 27, 2018

John Pluecker and Jen Hofer: September 26th, 2018

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