<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><head></head><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Dear Poeticians,<div><br></div><div>as promised, I am sending via email a swath of poems by Jan Wagner, both in the original German and in translation. Also included are a short essay as well as a note by one of his translators about the process of translating. These will be the basis of our next session, which will be on Oct 12 from 3-5 PM in room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center. Then Wagner himself will join us for a conversation about his work and contemporary German poetry on October 26. Below I will paste Wagner's official bio.</div><div><br></div><div>And why not? Here's a video of Wagner reading (auf Deutsch, natürlich): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFZM2nWOpA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFZM2nWOpA</a></div><div><br></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Jan Wagner was born 1971 in Hamburg and has
been living in Berlin since 1995. He is a poet, a translator of Anglo-American
poetry (Charles Simic, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney, Jo
Shapcott, Robin Robertson, Michael Hamburger, Dan Chiasson and many others), a
literary critic (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Frankfurter Rundschau,
Der Tagesspiegel </i>and others) and has been, until 2003, a co-publisher of
the international literature box <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Die
Aussenseite des Elementes</i> („The Outside of the Element“). Apart from
numerous appearances in anthologies and magazines, he has published the poetry
collections <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Probebohrung</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">im Himmel</i> („A Trial Drill in the Sky“;
Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Guerickes
Sperling</i> („Guericke’s Sparrow“, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Achtzehn Pasteten</i> (“Eighteen Pies”,
Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Australien</i>
(“Australia”, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010) and, as translator and editor,
collections of selected poems by James Tate, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Der falsche Weg nach Hause</i> („The Wrong Way Home“, Berlin Verlag,
Berlin 2004), Matthew Sweeney, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Rosa Milch</i>
(“Pink Milk”, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008) and</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="DE">Simon Armitage („Zoom!“, 2011)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">. With the poet Björn Kuhligk he edited the comprehensive anthologies of
young German language poetry <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Lyrik von
Jetzt. 74 Stimmen</i> („Poetry of Now. 74 voices“, Dumont Verlag, Cologne 2003)
and its sequel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Lyrik von Jetzt zwei. 50
Stimmen</i> (Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008) and co-operated on the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Der Wald im Zimmer. Eine Harzreise</i> (“A
Forest Inside the Room. A Journey Across the Harz Mountains”, Berliner
Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2007), an hommage to Heinrich Heine. A selection of
his essays, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Die Sandale des Propheten.
Beiläufige Prosa </i>(“The Prophet’s Sandal. Incidental Prose”), was published
2011 by Berlin Verlag. For his poetry, which has been translated into thirty
languages, he has received various scholarships (2002 in the Künstlerhaus
Edenkoben, 2004 as Heinrich-Heine-resident in Lüneburg, </span><span lang="DE">2008
as „writer-in-residence“ at Oberlin College, Ohio/USA,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> and 2011 in the German Academy in Rome/Villa
Massimo, among others) and literary awards, most recently the Alfred Gruber
Award (2004), the Mondsee Poetry Award (2004), the Anna-Seghers-Award (2004),
the Ernst-Meister-Award for Poetry (2005), the Arno-Reinfrank-Award (2006), the
Wilhelm-Lehmann-Award (2009), </span><span lang="DE">the
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of the city of Tübingen (2011) and the Kranichsteiner
Literaturpreis (2011).</span></div><div><span lang="DE"><br></span></div><div><span lang="DE">This will be an exciting opportunity to talk with this rising star of international poetry.</span></div><div><span lang="DE"><br></span></div><div><span lang="DE"><br></span></div><div><span lang="DE"><br></span></div><div><span lang="DE">Also, I wanted to pass on word about a reading curated by our very own Katie Yates that is occurring this Weds (an open mic precedes the main event, readings by two friends of WGCP).</span></div><div><span lang="DE"><br></span></div><div><span lang="DE">Onward,</span></div><div><span lang="DE">Richard Deming, WGCP coordinator </span></div><div><span lang="DE"><br></span></div><div><span lang="DE"><br></span></div><div><span lang="DE"><br></span></div><div><span lang="DE">
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