Nick Laird
The Translation Slam
May 1, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (betw. E. 1st & Bleecker Sts.); 9, $10
I dosed out on slams after freshman year of college, but this one, part of the PEN World Voices festival, is different. Using the work of Irishman Nick Laird and Catalan poet Narcis
Comadira,
two of the Festival guests, as starting points, a bunch of translators
go head-to-cabeza to turn the latter’s words into Spanish and the
formers into English.
Bottom Line: A slam without the emotion? Count me in!
