Wednesday, March 20, 7–9 PM
QC Art Center, Rosenthal Library 612
Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Queens, NY 11367
Moderated by Roger Sedarat
Zoom link: http://tinyurl.com/yjn6h98p
Join us for a reading by Rebecca Suzuki, winner of the Loose Translation Award. The award offers publication by Hanging Loose Press of a book-length literary translation from any language and in any genre to current or former Queens College MFA students.
When My Mother is Most Beautiful, which is the product of this award, is at once a powerful love letter to a mother and to language itself, delving into complex questions of family, communication, culture, and connection. These poems chronicle the difficult art of navigating multiple cultural identities, examining how languages twist and morph across cultures through the imperfect act of translation, how they bind people together and keep them apart, and even how they could be reimagined to make a better world.
We are proud to partner with Hanging Loose on this award, which brings vibrant new voices to the translation community, and we are proud of Rebecca and what she has been able to accomplish here!
If you can't make it to campus for this wonderful event for the QC community, we hope you can join us over Zoom via the link below.
Join via Zoom: http://tinyurl.com/yjn6h98p
BIO:
Rebecca Suzuki is author of When My Mother Is Beautiful (Hanging Loose Press), winner of the 2023 Loose Translation Prize. She writes creative nonfiction in a mixture of forms and languages, and she often writes about identity, home, family, lineage, immigration, Asian Americanism, language, translation, and more. Her work has also been published in various journals and magazines. When she is not writing creative nonfiction, she is translating poems or contemporary prose from Japanese to English. She earned her MFA in Literary Translation and Creative Writing from Queens College, and is a lecturer of English there. You can find more information on her website, rebeccasuzuki.com.