Colloquy
Colloquy: Translators in Conversation is an event series presented by World Poetry Books in collaboration with Montez Press Radio and partnering New York City institutions and bookstores where translators to engage with live audiences in an exploration of the art of translation.
Colloquy’s partners and co-presenters include the Brooklyn Public Library, the Center for the Humanities (CUNY Graduate Center), Unnameable Books, P&T Knitwear, and the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center.
Each event is broadcast and archived on the internet by Montez Press Radio for wider access. Edited transcripts of the conversations have been published at Asymptote and Hopscotch.
Colloquy Curator: C. Francis Fisher
Colloquy Intern: Katelyn Peters
For inquiries or to get involved as a co-presenter, please contact us at colloquy[at]worldpoetrybooks.com.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Colloquy #16
Queerness in Translation
Kira Josefsson, Julia Sanches, and Jeffrey Zuckerman
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 6PM
The New School
66 West 12th Street, Room 407
New York, NY 10011
Colloquy #17
Emerging Translators
Marine Cornuet, Aiden Farrell, and Poorna Swami
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 7PM
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
PAST EVENTS
Colloquy #15
Violent Phenomena
Madhu Kaza, Elisa Taber, and Hamid Roslan
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 6:30PM
The Skylight Room (9100)
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Colloquy #14
Retranslating the Canon
Mary Jo Bang, Yasmine Seale, and Kimi Traube
Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 7PM
Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #13
Emerging Translators
Shangyang Fang, Joana Urtasun, and Mayada Ibrahim
Friday, May 10, 2024, 7PM
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #12
Archipelago Books
Kalpana Raina, Jacob Rogers, and Jennifer Shyue
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 7PM
Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #11
Korean Poetry in Translation
Stine An, Eunice Lee, Seo Jung Hak, Megan Sungyoon, and Soje, hosted and moderated by Kate Peters
Monday, March 25, 2024, 6:30PM
The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Colloquy #10
Translating Avant-Garde Women
Alex Braslavsky, Christina Svendsen, and Emilie Moorhouse, hosted and moderated by Madhu Kaza
Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7PM
Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #9
Translating Visual Poetry
Mónica de la Torre, Michael Kasper, and Olivia Sears
Friday, November 3, 2023, 7PM
Center for Book Arts
28 W 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
Colloquy #8
New Directions
Patricio Ferrari, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, and Minna Zallman Proctor
Friday, October 6, 2023, 7PM
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #7
Emerging Translators
Elina Alter, Alex Braslavsky, and Greg Nissan
Saturday, June 3, 2023, 5PM
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #6
Latin American Poetry in Translation
Lily Zemborain, Christopher Winks, Jeanette L. Clariond, Samantha Schnee, and Marguerite Feitlowitz
Tuesday, May 9, 2023, 7PM
Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #5
Translating the Caribbean
Aaron Coleman, Kaiama L. Glover, and Urayoán Noel
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 4PM
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk St
New York, NY 10002
Read a transcript of the readers’ conversation via Asymptote here.
Colloquy #4
Translating Constraint
Chris Clarke, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Emma Ramadan
Saturday, March 2, 2023, 7PM
P & T Knitwear
615 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Read a transcript of the readers’ conversation via Hopscotch Translation here.
Colloquy #3
Translating La Francophonie
Nicole Simek, Pierre Joris, and Mark Polizzotti
Wed, February 1, 2023, 7PM
Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #2
Retranslating Classics
Susan Bernofsky, Katrina Dodson, and Mark Polizzotti
Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 7PM
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Colloquy #1
Translators in Conversation
Jennifer Grotz, Piotr Sommer, and Danielle Pieratti
Saturday, October 8, 2022, 4PM
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Read a transcript of the readers’ conversation via Hopscotch Translation here.