I've compiled this woefully incomplete list of medieval women's poetry in translation partly as self-promotion and partly in order to share resources. Additions are welcome. Happy #WITMonth, everyone! Classical Arabic, 4000 BCE – 1492 CE Abdullah al-Udhari, tr. & ed. Classical Poems by Arab Women. Saqui Books, 1999. Hebrew, 10th – mid-15th centuries Shirley Kaufman, …
An interview with Marissa Higgins in Ms.
Marissa Higgins and I interviewed each other as the fourth installment in "The Lesbian Poets of Headmistress Press," a series of conversations between Headmistress poets, on Ms. Magazine's blog. *LBT women & non-binary poets, SUBMIT your manuscripts to the Charlotte Mew Contest, awarded annually through Headmistress Press! This year's judge is Ching-In Chen.*
Old English > “Middle French” > Modern English
I have a double translation in Doublespeak! The original is an Old English riddle; I adapted it into "Middle French" octosyllabic couplets and then translated my own adaptation into Modern English iambic tetrameter. Thank you to the editors, especially Shailly Pandey and Yehudith Dashevsky, who encouraged me to submit!
Joy Ladin: On Trans Poetics, God, and Being Human
I interviewed Joy Ladin for Lambda Literary! You can read our conversation here.
Renée Vivien at the Women in Translation blog
The translators and advocates at Women in Translation have posted a link to my Renée Vivien translations on their blog! Both their blog and their website are invaluable resources for women and non-binary translators as well as women and non-binary writers in translation. You can also follow them on Twitter @Read_WIT and look for their hashtags …
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Women Translators of Sappho
Here is a list—by no means complete!—of women-authored translations from the Ancient Greek of Sappho (ca. 630 – ca. 570 B.C.E.). Louise Labé (1524-1566), Sonnet 7 (1555), an adaptation of Sappho 31 into a French sonnet Anne (Le Fèvre) Dacier (1647? – 1720), Les Poésies de Sappho de Lesbos (1681), translations into French prose Anonymous ("Fille …
Renée Vivien in The Rumpus!
Thank you so much to Maryann Corbett for this stunning review of my Renée Vivien translations! A poet, scholar, and translator—check out her work in Mid Evil!—Corbett writes: ... the strangeness itself is fascinating, and one has the sense that our fascination is Vivien’s aim. She is an exotic, and for those times when your mood …
Two cat poems in Mezzo Cammin
I'm happy as a cat to have two poems appearing in the Winter 2018 issue of Mezzo Cammin! The sonnet "Shakespeare, to his Cat" began ten years ago as an assignment for Mr. Hackett's eleventh-grade English class at Wooster School, and it's come a long way since then. As always, I'm deeply grateful to editors Kim Bridgford …
“LBT+ and Non-Binary Poets” list gets a shout-out
Thanks to Danika Ellis for linking to my list of LBT+ Women and Non-Binary Poets in her blog post on Book Riot — Lesbian Poetry: Because it didn't end with Sappho! In fact, browsing Danika Ellis's website The Lesbrary — a vast resource for all "lesbian/bi/etc" books, but especially fiction — was what inspired me to compile …
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A poem in Bi Women Quarterly!
I'm super excited to have a poem appearing in the Winter 2018 issue of Bi Women Quarterly alongside work by Casey Lawrence, Jane Barnes, and many other fabulous people! There's also an accompanying photograph — scroll down and look for the purple pansies ...
