Master Class: Rachel Galvin

Wednesday, Oct 24 2018, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Poetry at Bennington—Fall 2018

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Rachel Galvin is the author of two books of poetry. Her newest release, Elevated Threat Level (Green Lantern Press, 2018), is a collection about American comfort in times of war, news reporting, and the rhetoric of violence. Her other work is News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her translation of Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets won the 2014 Scott Moncrieff Prize from the UK’s Translators Association and her translation of Argentinian poet Oliverio Girondo is forthcoming. The co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective, Galvin is an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago.