Speaker: Yasmine Seale, poet, artist, translator, and currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library where she is completing a translation of the 1001 Nights.
For our seminar, she will speak about Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi, the creative and collaborative translation she produced with poet/translator Robin Moger of Ibn Arabi’s Tarjuman al-Ashwaq/The Interpreter of Desires. You can read more about this project and hear Yasmine and Robin read from their work here. Lunch will be served.
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