In this episode of the Poeboes podcast series for Words without Borders, André Naffis speaks to poet and translator from the Italian Jamie McKendrick.

Poeboes: The Monthly Podcast for Poetry & Translation

Poeboes Podcast Episode 5: Jamie McKendrick

Listen to translator and poet Robin Myers read her essay "Hosts and Guests." From Words Without Borders(wordswithoutborders.org), December 2022.

Robin Myers reads "Hosts and Guests"

Listen to author Laksmi Pamuntjak read from her story "Anna and Her Daughter's Partner" in the original Indonesian. Read the story translated by Annie Tucker on wordswithoutborders.org.

Laksmi Pamuntjak reads "Anna and Her Daughter's Partner"

Listen to author Emiliana Bernard-Stephenson read her poem "Kriol Soldier" in the original San Andrés-Providencia Creole. Read the poem translated by the author on wordswithoutborders.org.

Emiliana Bernard-Stephenson reads "Kriol Soldier"

Listen to author Jean D'Amérique read his poem "Poem for Children with Trouble Sleeping" in the original Haitian Creole. Read the poem, translated by Nathan H. Dize, on wordswithoutborders.org.

Jean D'Amérique Reads "Poem for Children with Trouble Sleeping"

Translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads his English translation of Najwan Darwish's poem "Merely a Dream." Read the poem on wordswithoutborders.org.

Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads Najwan Darwish's "Merely A Dream" in English translation

Translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads his English translation of Najwan Darwish's poem "Two Stops." Read the poem on wordswithoutborders.org.

Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads Najwan Darwish's "Two Stops" in English translation

Translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads his English translation of Najwan Darwish's poem "A Violet Darkness." Read the poem on wordswithoutborders.org.

Kareem James Abu-Zeid reads Najwan Darwish's "A Violet Darkness" in English translation

Yang Licai reads his poem "Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer" in the original Chinese. Read the poem in Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

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Yang Licai reads "Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer" in the original Chinese

Joshua Edwards reads his and Lynn Xu's English translation of Yang Licai's poem "Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer." Read the translation, and the Chinese-language original, on wordswithoutborders.org

Joshua Edwards reads his and Lynn Xu's translation of "Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer"

In this interview for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Fiction, finalist Bothayna Al-Essa discusses her novel "The Book Censor's Library," out from World Editions in a translation by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain. The entire interview can be found on Words Without Borders at https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2024-10/the-national-book-award-interviews-bothayna-al-essa-ranya-abdelrahman-sawad-hussein

Music credit: "Glacier," Jon Salmon, Free Music Archive. Used with permission under CC BY-NC-SA.

Bothayna Al-Essa on "The Book Censor's Library" — Words Without Borders

Patron Henekou reads "My Love Lives on Wind" in the original French

Adèle Rosenfeld reads from “The Hearing-Aid Brigade” in the original French

Farishta Salehi reads "Rebellion" in the original Pashto

Hendri Yulius Wijaya reads his poem "Butterfly Brand" in the original Indonesian. Read the poem in Edward Gunawan's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Hendri Yulius Wijaya reads "Butterfly Brand" in the original Indonesian

Kinshuk Gupta reads his poem "Sweet child, do not be as wise as your parents" in the original Hindi. Read the poem in Dyuti Mishra's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Kinshuk Gupta reads "Sweet child, do not be as wise as your parents" in the original Hindi

Tamanna Easar reads from her short story "Tongueless Speaker" in the original Dari. Read the short story in Abdul Bacet's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Tamanna Easar reads from "Tongueless Speaker" in the original Dari

Zaheda reads from her short story "A Chapan the Height of Noorjan" in the original Dari. Read the short story in Abdul Bacet's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Zaheda reads from "A Chapan the Height of Noorjan" in the original Dari

Ági Bori reads from Miklós Vámos' short story "When Nikita Scored the Coke" in the original Hungarian. Read the short story in her translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Ági Bori reads from "When Nikita Scored the Coke" by Miklós Vámos in the original Hungarian

Lena Ruth Stefanović reads from her short story "One Day When You Leave the Black Mountains" in the original Montenegrin. Read the short story in Will Firth's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Lena Ruth Stefanović reads from "One Day When You Leave the Black Mountains"

Milovan Radejović reads from his short story "Passengers" in the original Montenegrin. Read the short story in Will Firth's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Milovan Radejović reads from his short story "Passengers" in the original Montegrin

Tahir Hamut Izgil reads his poem "Lumberjacks" in the original Uyghur. Read the poem in Joshua L. Freeman's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Tahir Hamut Izgil reads his poem "Lumberjacks" in the original Uyghur

Kseniia Bolshakova reads from her short story "Freedom" in the original Dolgan. Read the short story in Ainsley Morse's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Kseniia Bolshakova reads from her short story "Freedom" in the original Dolgan

Thuận reads from Yves Bouille's translation of "Calculations." Read Phương Anh's English translation and Thuận's original Vietnamese on wordswithoutborders.org.

Thuận reads from the French translation of "Calculations" ("Le Parc Aux Roseaux"), translated by Yves Bouillé

Ainsley Morse reads her English translation of Kseniia Bolshakova's short story "Freedom." Read the translation, Dolgan-language original, and Bolshakova's self-translation in Russian on wordswithoutborders.org

Ainsley Morse reads from her English translation of Kseniia Bolshakova's "Freedom"

Thuy Dinh reads Thường Quán's "Theater at Cồn Market" in the original Vietnamese. Read the poem in Dinh's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Thuy Dinh reads Thường Quán's "Theater at Cồn Market" in the original Vietnamese

Shibabrata Barman reads from his short story "Suraiya" in the original Montenegrin. Read the short story in Shabnam Nadiya's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Shibabrata Barman reads from his short story "Suraiya" in the original Bengali

Silvia Choleva reads her poems "bent over me" and "a death" in the original Bulgarian. Read the poem in Marina Stefanova's translation on wordswithoutborders.org

Silvia Choleva reads her poems "bent over me" and "a death"

Gabriela Wiener - Viaje a traves de ayahuasca

Translator Trent Walker chants stanzas 100 to 102 of Queen Indradevi's poetic inscription on the Great Stele of Phimeanakas in the original Sanskrit.

Queen Indradevi's Poetic Inscription Chanted in Sanskrit in a Khmer Style by Trent Walker

Taiwanese poet Ye Mimi reads her poem “12–25,” part of the August 2016 Words without Borders issue.

Taiwanese writer Ye Mimi reads her poem ”12–25”—Words without Borders

Gëzim Hajdari reads his poem ”I am leaving you Europe” in Albanian.  The poem appears in the September 2016 Words without Borders issue in English and Italian.

Gëzim Hajdari reads his poem ”I am leaving you Europe” in Albanian—Words without Borders

Listen to Arinimal's "The jewels of my eyes I'll lay at your feet," which appeared in the June 2017 issue of Words without Borders, in the original Kashmiri.

Kashmiri Poetry: Arinimal's "The jewels of my eyes I'll lay at your feet" - Words without Borders

Listen to Bernard Capinpin read his translation of Filipino poet Enrique Villasis's "Birds in Flight,” one of four winning selections in the Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest chosen by Pushcart Prize winner David Tomas Martinez.

Poems in Translation Contest: "Birds in Flight, 1965," by Enrique Villasis, tr. Bernard Capinpin

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