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Trafika Europe event April 8 in New York City

Four translators present and discuss their latest work in an evening dedicated to helping Trafika Europe Radio get on the air:
 
Katrine Øgaard  Jensen (Editor in Chief, Columbia Journal) translates poems from Danish by Theis Ørntoft.
 
Alex Zucker (Co-Chair, PEN Translation Committee) reads from Love Letter in Cuneiform, his translation from Czech of Tomáš Zmeškal’s first novel.
 
Jennifer Zoble (Founding Editor of InTranslation) reads and discusses her translation of the new memoir by acclaimed and colorful Bosnian writer Miljenko Jergović.
 
Visiting Armenian poet Marine Petrossian will perform and discuss her own translations from Armenian of her latest poetry.
 
Trafika Europe Director Andrew Singer will be on hand to host this event, and tell you all about Trafika Europe Radio - Europe's literary radio station! This is real community radio for literature from across the whole continent - the 47 countries of Council of Europe

Word Up Community Bookshop
April 8, 2015, 7–9pm
2113 Amsterdam Avenue
(at the corner of 165th Street)
New York, NY 10032
$10 suggested donation—though no one will be turned away.

Execution of Charles I

Painting of the execution of Charles I at Whitehall in 1649 after a long and bitter civil war. Artist unknown. National Galleries of Scotland.

Andrew Singer reviews Emanations: Foray into Forever

In the latest edition of World Literature Today poet Andrew Singer writes on Emanations: Foray into Forever. 

Emanations: Foray into Forever is a refreshingly focused collection—focused by staking out a particular frequency of literature to explore. This hefty volume is the fourth in the Emanations series, which seems to be groping toward a renewed, internationalized avant-garde. Series editor Carter Kaplan has assembled fine offerings, and what unifies the whole is the specific range of experiment it hosts—now slyly unruly, now intellectual, now delighted. This is an expression of the range of Kaplan himself, in the (correct) assessment that others of us will enjoy being invited along.

Read the rest of the review by clicking HERE.

Emanations: Foray into Forever is available through Amazon by clicking HERE.

Professor Hodges and the art of academic productivity

My friend and International Authors colleague, Horace Jeffery Hodges has put together an impressive list of recent publications, appearing today in his blog Gypsy Scholar.

2015 "The Uncanny Story," Emanations: 2 + 2 = 5, Edited by Carter Kaplan (Brookline, MA: International Authors, 2015) (Forthcoming). 

2015 "Milton's Astronomy and the Seasons of Paradise: Queries Motivated by Alastair Fowler's Views," Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, Vol. 24, Number 1 (2014/2015), 88-104. 

2014 "Horace Jeffery Hodges (poems)," Emanations: Foray into Forever, Edited by Carter Kaplan (Brookline, MA: International Authors, 2014), 263-266. 

2014 "Literature and National Community: The United States and the Case of Stephen Vincent Benét" (Invited Speaker), Proceedings of the Byeng-ju Lee International Literary Festival 2014 (Hadong-Gun: Byeng-ju Lee Memorial Society, Fall 2014). 

2014 "The Mis-Education of Horace Hodges" (Invited Speaker), Proceedings: Storytelling – Trauma, Healing, and Pedagogy (Seoul: Research Institute for Storytelling at Chung-Ang University, Fall 2014).
2014 Shin Chae-ho, Dream Sky, translated by Hwang Sun-Ae and Horace Jeffery Hodges (Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, Fall 2014). 

2014 Yang Geon-sik, Sad Contradiction, translated by Hwang Sun-Ae and Horace Jeffery Hodges (Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, Fall 2014). 

2014 "True Translation?" (Keynote Speech), The Role of Translators and Literary Agents in Globalizing Korean Literature, The 13th International Workshop for Translation and publication of Korean Literature, June 20, 2014 (Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2014).

I am in the process of copy-editing Jeffery's new novella The Uncanny Story for publication in the 2015 volume of Emanations, and the quality of his work (wonderful and outstanding, as usual) moves me to recommend a recent review of his first novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer.  The review, which appears on Amazon, can also be viewed HERE.

"Helen of Troy" by Terrance Lindall

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies!
Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena.
I will be Paris, and for love of thee,
Instead of Troy, shall Wittenberg be sack'd;
And I will combat with weak Menelaus,
And wear thy colours on my plumed crest;
Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel,
And then return to Helen for a kiss.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;
Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter
When he appear'd to hapless Semele;
More lovely than the monarch of the sky
In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms;
And none but thou shalt be my paramour!

                                                 -- Christopher Marlowe

Read more about artist and philosopher Terrance Lindall by clicking HERE.

And be sure to view the images of Terrance on the set of the film Surrealmageddon, click HERE.

Trafika Europe 3: Latvian Sojourn

Trafika Europe 3: Latvian Sojourn is now available. There’s a sampling of six contemporary Latvian writers, plus new Saami and Croatian poetry, fiction from Bulgaria, and something from the Greek avant-garde. Also featured are art photographs taken in and around Riga.

Please click HERE to visit the Trafika Europe website and gain free access to this new on-line issue.

On-Line Space Weather Data and Solar Observatory

Please click HERE to visit the SolarHam website for real-time streaming space weather data and multi-spectrum solar imagery.  Sources include:

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC),  
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO),  
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO),  
Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO),  
Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE),  
Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO).

Additional solar analysis available here:  Nous sommes du soliel

Fantasy Worlds

A description of the Fantasy Worlds anthology has been added to the International Authors website. Please click HERE.

Custom Amplifier Construction in Minneapolis

When he isn't teaching culture studies or writing poetry and fiction for Emanations, Dr. Jeffrey Falla runs ToneTron Amplifiers, a manufacturer of custom hand-built guitar tube amplifiers. Please click HERE to visit the ToneTron website. Be sure to click "More" and "About" in the drop down menu across the top to read Dr. Falla's gloss on International Authors and Emanations.

These days I am happy playing acoustic guitar and piano, but if I decided to play electric or pursue recording projects I would acquire one (or more) of these high-quality systems.  As the website shows, these are exceptional pieces of equipment.

Underground Publishing in Manchester

The Butterworth exhibition is leading to the production of a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the history of alternative publishing in Manchester, England.



Read more about the film by clicking HERE.

On-Line Galactic Center Monitoring Laboratory

Energetic particle outflows from the galactic center

Please click HERE to visit the Swift monitoring campaign of the Galactic center.