Tucson Festival of Books

Translation & Ekphrasis


Join Carol Moldaw and Arthur Sze, recently named the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States, for a special conversation on the art of translation, poetry inspired by visual art, and poetic collaboration. Panelists will read from their recent books and share insights into their writing practices.


Panelists
Carol Moldaw

Carol Moldaw is an American poet and the author of seven books of poetry including "Go Figure," "Beauty Refracted," and "The Lightning Field," winner of the 2002 FIELD Prize. The recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, she was an artist-in-residence at the Merwin Conservancy in Maui, Hawaii, in 2022....

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Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze is the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States. He is the author of 12 books of poetry, including "Into the Hush," "The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems," "The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems," and "Sight Lines," which received the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry....


Books:
Go Figure
Carol Moldaw
Poetry
Four Way Books
January 2024
ISBN 9781961897045
88 pages
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Into the Hush
Arthur Sze
Poetry
Copper Canyon Press
January 2025
ISBN 9781556597145
88 pages
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