Poetry

Jonathan Damery, Associate Editor of Arnoldia, Arnold Arboretum 1 Session: Tuesday, June 25, 7:00–8:15pm Location: Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum All writers must contend with translation. A poet translates the movement of a dancing figure into a brief couplet, and an essayist translates the noise and commotion of the city where she lives into a single paragraph. The three-dimensional world filters into text, and when done especially well—the realm of literature and art—readers often forget that…