Samuel Hazo & Nirvana Tanoukhi

Where: Plutzik Library, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Samuel Hazo (author, translator of Lebanese and Palestinian Poetry, founder of the National Poetry Forum) will discuss art and translation, and read from his new poetry collection, Like a Man Gone Wild. Nirvana Tanoukhi (expert in Arab and African literature, fellow at Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute) will dissect “How Translators Became Traitors.” Discussion and Q&A to follow. (Presented by the Department of English.)