Tabula Poetica continues it’s Poetry Reading Series on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 with Sholeh Wolpé, author of Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths.

Wolpe’s talk, “Crimes of Passion-Murder on the Translation Express” will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Wilkinson Chapel, Fish Interfaith Center, followed by a poetry reading at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room, Leatherby Libraries.

About the author: Sholeh Wolpé is the author of three collections of poetry, two books of translations, and a play and is the editor of three anthologies. She is the recipient of Lois Roth Persian Translation Award for her book Sin—Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad.  Wolpé teaches poetry and literary translation at the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program.  She lives in Los Angeles.

For a full list of authors who will be reading this semester, check out the Tabula Poetica Poetry site.

The Tabula Poetica series is funded by the Department of English and by Poets & Writers, Inc., through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. All Tabula Poetica events are free and open to the public.