Poets & Translators Needed for New PIWWC Project!

Dear Friends!

We need YOUR help to promote PEN work!

The PEN International Women Writers Committee is seeking to collaborate with PEN Centres and global literary organizations to create a poet pairing project, called Found in Translation: Poets Across Worlds.

Our goal is to form pairs of poets across borders, languages, and political and religious boundaries to work in concert and conversation to translate each other’s poems. 

These pairs of poems will go on the PIWWC’s website, and we will host the poets reading their poems on Zoom Webinars, utilizing the WWC’s webinar subscription. 

To launch this project, we would like to connect with poets from around the world that would like their work in another language, and would like to be in conversation with a poet from across the world. 

Please share this email with translators and poets in your Centres, and invite them to please contact me or —if you would be so kind! please share a list of the poets and translators in your Centres with me: judyth.hill@pen-international.org.

Currently we have initiated Found in Translation by seeking to connect Palestinian poets, wherever they may be living—both women and men, with Jewish poets.

We have invited a group of Jewish poets in the United States who are members of an organization for Jewish writers, Yetzirah, to exchange poems with Palestinian poets, and—with their permission—we hope to share these paired poets reading their work in a Zoom Webinar and publish their poems on the PIWWC and Yetzirah website.

Thank you so much for your solidarity and participation! 

Abrazos,

Judyth Hill