I had such a lovely, restorative conversation with Rawand Mustafa, the 2024 winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press-- and our first featured guest of 2025!
This episode was co-hosted by Kathleen Sullivan, Arkansas MFA candidate in literary translation, translation editor of The Arkansas International, director of Arkansas' Writers in the Schools program, and dear friend!
UMBILICAL DISCORD is available for purchase here: www.uapress.com/umbilical-discord-available/
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:16 ON GRAD SCHOOL & FIRST STEPS IN TRANSLATION
03:40 ON THE TRANSLATION & RESEARCH PROCESS
08:43 ON THE WRITING PROCESS
17:22 ON ORGANIZATION & SELECTION
20:54 ON UMBILICAL DISCORD & CONTRASTS OF LIFE AND DEATH
24:31 ON LANGUAGE AS CARRIER
29:41 ON REVISIONS, ENDINGS, & TAKEAWAYS
36:37 A WRITING PROMPT, INSPIRATIONS & SUBMISSIONS
40:57 ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A WITNESS
47:55 AUDIENCE QUESTIONS
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