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Ralph Angel is the author of four books of poetry: Anxious Latitudes; Neither World, which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets; Twice Removed; and Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006; as well as a translation of Federico García Lorca’s Poem of the Deep Song.

His poems have appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary awards include a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, the 2003 Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association.

Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College.  Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles.

Read about Exceptions and Melancholies on the Sarabande Books website.

Learn more about Ralph Angel’s translation of Poem of the Deep Song on the Sarabande Books website.
 

Alta Ifland was born in Eastern Europe, studied literature and philosophy in France, and currently lives in California.  Her prose poems and stories have been published in Action Yes, Agni, Arlington Literary Journal, The Bathyspheric Review, Cafe Irreal, Field, Metamorphoses, Pacific Review, Parthenon West Review, Prairie Schooner, and Santa Clara Review.  Her first book is Voice of Ice (Les Figues Press, 2007).

Voice of Ice is a series of prose poems about the estranged self living outside of one’s native land and away from one’s native tongue.  Ms. Ifland writes first in French, then translates her work into English before returning to the original French for further revisions, a process of linguistic reconciliation as much as translation.  Published in a bilingual, French/English edition, Ifland repeatedly turns to remembered images of her unnamed homeland to animate her unfamiliar home, creating, what poet Gary Young calls, in the Introduction, “a brilliant collection of prose poems document[ing] the quest for a coherent self, an authentic identity born out of the chaos of language and history.”

Visit Alta Ifland’s website.

Learn more about Voice of Ice on the Les Figues Press website.
 

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

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