PIO profiled on KALW.
Click here to listen to KALW radio's feature on our program.
Download the sound file from radio station KALW San Francisco, May 9's "Your Call" show featuring an interview with translator Saadi Simawe and actress Denmo Ibrahim talking about contemporary Iraqi poetry. (54MB zipped .mp3 file)
Center in the News:
Lit&Lunch recognized in SF Weekly's Best of San Francisco
Two Lines poet featured on PBS Newshour
March 22. Tune into the PBS NewsHour.
TWO LINES #14: World Writing in Translation features Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali's "Revenge," translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin. The poem met with an overwhelming response when it was read at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in the fall. Read more here…
Poetry Inside Out featured on Bay Area radio program
Listen to the April 6th "Cover to Cover - Open Book" show here.
Hear the unique voices and poetry of Poetry Inside Out students on KPFA's Cover to Cover. And don't miss the 7th Annual Student Recital on Saturday, May 12 at the San Francisco Public Library main branch's Koret Auditorium.
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Poetry Inside Out featured in the San Francisco Chronicle!
Monday, May 22, 2006
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE - The beauty of language
by Louis Freedberg
In a portable classroom just yards from Interstate 880 in Oakland, John Oliver Simon, a well-known poet and renowned translator of Latin American poetry, is helping third-graders translate a poem by Chilean Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.
Simon is demonstrating that a foreign language can be used for much more than a silly Spanish translation of the "Star-Spangled Banner."
(link to read the full article)
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Gifts that give twice
Many holiday art sales benefit philanthropic causes
By Monique Beeler, Staff Writer
Inside Bay Area
At age 9, Berkeley fourth-grader Caroline Maria Woods-Mejia can claim an
honor many of her adult peers cannot: She is a published, prize-winning
poet.
When she writes, Caroline tells her poetry teacher at Rosa Parks School, "I
am in a bubble of fire."
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 Read about Poetry Inside Out
in the latest issue of Teachers & Writers magazine!In "Harnessing the
Transformative Power of Translation", Directors John Oliver Simon and
Michael Ray include samples of student poems to illustrate the creativity
that is unleashed in the program. Download the entire article here.
(PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
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Center to Honor Young Poets in Fifth Annual Poetry Inside Out Student
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mentioned in "Loss in Translation" from
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