Walton Visiting Writer in Translation Ellen Doré Watson

Join us for a reading and discussion with Walton Visiting Writer in Translation, Ellen Doré Watson.

Hailed by Library Journal as one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century,” Ellen Doré Watson’s honors include a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to Yaddo and MacDowell, a Zoland Poetry Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.

She is the translator of a dozen volumes from Brazilian Portuguese, most notably the poems of Adélia Prado, including The Alphabet in the Park (Wesleyan University Press), Ex-Voto (Tupelo Press), and The Mystical Rose (Bloodaxe Books), which was shortlisted for the 2015 Popescu European Translation Prize. She has also co-translated contemporary Palestinian and Iraqi poetry from Arabic with Saadi Simawe.  

Her poems and translations have appeared widely in journals, including American Poetry Review, Tin House, Orion, Field, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast and The New Yorker. New Prado translations have recently appeared in Plume, Ploughshares and The Nation. Watson teaches at the Colrain Manuscript Conference.  

Books will be available for sale and signing following the event.

This event is made possible by the University of Arkansas MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation, the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the English department, the Walton Family Foundation, Fayetteville Public Library and the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professorship in Creative Writing.

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