[Marcia Karp]

If you want to and can, please come to a production by the resurrected Poets' Theatre: an evening of poems in their own language and in translation, held at the wonderfully restored Modern Theatre in Boston's Combat Zone. Bob Scanlan directs.

Here's the blurb --

The Word Exchange: the Power and Music of Language in Translation

Presented by Suffolk University and The Poets’ Theatre
With:
Dan Donoghue
David Ferry
Amanda Gann
Eamon Grennan
George Kalogeris
Marcia Karp
Rachel Kitzinger
Paula Langton
Fred Marchant
Nguyen Ba Chung
Aidan Parkinson
Lloyd Schwartz
    and others

Understand the profound potency and music of language in this extraordinary evening of international poetry, including works from Vietnam, Italy, France, Ancient Greece and Rome, evocatively performed both in the original and in translations by world class poets and actors.

Thursday, January 22, 7:30 P.M.
The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University
525 Washington Street, Boston

[Susan McLean]

Sounds great, I wish I could go.

Susan

[Marcia Karp]

I wish you could, too, Susan.

[Julie Steiner]

Whose work will you be sharing with English-speakers, Marcia? (Not that translations aren't the translator's own work, too, but you know what I mean.)

[Marcia Karp]

I do know what you mean, Julie -- I'll be reading 3 riddles from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book.

Thanks for asking.

[Julie Steiner]

What fun! Racy ones might be appropriate, given the venue.

[Marcia Karp]

Racy, they are.

[Terese Coe]

Would love to be there, Marcia--hope you'll tell me about it later!

[Marcia Karp]

I will, Terese.

Here's a way to get a tiny (10%) discount on the occasion: Go here to order tickets and use Poets10 as the Promotional Code.

[Marcia Karp]

After rehearsals this week, I feel better about suggesting you come if you can. It's going to be very funky: a set with comfy chairs and sofas and a digital fireplace flickering away as we all sit listening to each other. There will be apt music between the language sets. Everything is bilingual and quite good, including some of Richard Wilbur's translations from the French. (He is one of the few not in attendance whose translations will be read.)