The Wide World: Translating Poetry, an ongoing monthly workshop with Sarah Arvio (via Zoom)

The Wide World: Translating Poetry, an ongoing monthly workshop with Sarah Arvio (via Zoom)

This class will be taught online using Zoom. Login instructions will be emailed on the day before the workshop. There will be a different Zoom link each month. Please check spam/promotions filters or email admin@writerscenter.org with questions.

Sarah Arvio is the author of Cry Back My Sea (2021), night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis (2013), Sono: cantos (2006), and Visits from the Seventh (2002), for which she won the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. All four books were published by Alfred A. Knopf. Her translations of poems and a play by Federico García Lorca, Poet in Spain, was published by Knopf in 2017, to wide critical acclaim. Arvio is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has won prizes for her work from Boston Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry. For many years a translator for the United Nations, she has taught at Princeton and at Columbia’s School of the Arts. She lives in New York City.