Date/Time
Date(s) - 3 Apr 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Columbia University Butler Library
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The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, a recently published bilingual collection of 123 Old English poems, and for readings of selected poems by their translators. The panel will include the collection’s editors: Profs. Greg Delanty (Saint Michael’s College) and Michael Matto (Adelphi University, former adjunct at Columbia), and two of its contributors, Prof. Tom Sleigh (Hunter College) and the Irish poet Gerry Murphy.
The event will take place in Butler Library 522/523, with a reception to follow.
Greg Delanty’s most recent book is The Word Exchange, Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation. Other books include The Ship of Birth (Carcanet Press, Louisiana State University Press 2006), The Blind Stitch (Carcanet Press, LSU Press, 2003) and The Hellbox (Oxford University Press 1998). His Collected Poems 1986-2006 is out from the Oxford Poet’s series of Carcanet Press. The National Library of Ireland has acquired his papers up to the end of 2012. He has received many awards, most recently a Guggenheim for poetry. He is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers. He is a US citizen and an Irish Citizen and teaches at Saint Michael’s College, Vermont, where he has lived since 1986.
Michael Matto is Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University, where he teaches medieval literature, the History of the English Language, and writing. He is co-editor (with Greg Delanty) of The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Norton, 2010) and co-editor (with Haruko Momma) of the Blackwell Companion the History of the English Language (Wiley-Balckwell, 2008). He has also been guest editor for three issues of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. His research is on cognition in Old English poetry and culture.
Tom Sleigh is the author of eight highly acclaimed books of poetry, including Army Cats (Graywolf Press, 2011), and Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), which won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award. He has also published a translation of Euripides’ Herakles (Oxford University Press, 2007), and a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). He has received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, the John Updike Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim grant, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, among many others. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.