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National Poetry Month
Poetic Places to Discover in Canada
by Chloe Coome for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Poetry is interwoven into the cultural tapestry of Canada and one need only visit to experience its far-reaching influence. In Montreal, one can go to the Saint-Louis Square and see the Monuments of Émile Nelligan and Octave Crémazie – the first National Poet of Quebec and…
Fructification, Creative Misunderstanding, Empathy: East and West Dissolve
by Sonja Arntzen for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Since the early twentieth century, by a process Ezra Pound called “fructification,” the poetries of East Asia have nourished poetry in English. Pound used the term writing a preface in 1918 for Ernest Fenollosa’s essay, “The Chinese Written Character as Medium for Poetry.” That essay was…
Communicating Vessels
by Beatriz Hausner for National Poetry Month, April 2020 At its most essential, translation is the transfer of textual or verbal objects from one language to another. Literary translation can be more readily compared to a kind of alchemy, where the contents of one vessel are poured into another vessel, and back again, to create…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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