In Person
- November 15, 2026 - 4:30 pm
- Building 2, First Floor, Room 2106
Free
On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy brings together two compelling works of criticism by past U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky: The Situation of Poetry and Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy – for its individual, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium. Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by current U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, he takes readers through nearly two millennia of poetry from every part of the world, with a critical eye on the artistic dimensions of translation itself. Pinsky and Sze will be joined in conversation by award-winning poet Carolyn Forché, author of Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems 1976-2026.
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