SÍM

Writer, educator, and translator Cole Swensen will read from her collection of ecopoetic nano-essays along with one of SÍM Residency artist-in-residence artists – Biswamit Dwibedy, at Mál og Menning on Monday, the 21st of August, from 4:00 PM.

Cole Swensen is the author of seventeen volumes, most recently Landscapes on a Train (Nightboat Books, 2017) and Gravesend (U. of California Press, 2012), and a volume of essays, ;Noise That Stays Noise (U. of Michigan Press, 2011). She is the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid, the founding editor of La Presse Books, which specializes in contemporary experimental French writing translated by English-language poets. She is also a translator of contemporary French poetry, prose, and art criticism. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN USA Award for Literary Translation, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, among others. A finalist twice for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and once for the National Book Award, she’s been writer-in-residence at Yale’s Beinecke Library, the Pratt Institute, Temple University, and various other places, and taught at the University of Denver and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop before coming to Brown.

Dwibedy teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature and English and joined The American University of Paris in 2019. He has also taught creative writing and arts practice at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India. He is the author of six collections of poetry, published in India and the United States. In 2012 he edited a dossier of Indian poetry in translation from seven different regional languages for Aufgabe, a literary journal published by Litmus Press, New York, and in 2015 he was a judge for the Best Translated Book Award conferred by Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester.