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The Willis Barnstone Translation Prize is an annual award given to an exceptional translation of a poem from any language into English. The prize was inaugurated in 2002 by the University of Evansville, and has been presented annually since 2003. The award is given in honor of the distinguished poet and translator, Willis Barnstone, and Dr. Barnstone has served each year as the contest's final judge. [1] The distinction comes with a cash prize of USD $1,000, and the winning poem or poems are published in The Evansville Review . After the retirement of Dr. William Baer in 2015, Dr. Tiffany Griffith, professor at the University of Evansville, became the director of the competition.
Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American New Formalist and Philhellene poet and translator. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.
Scott Hightower is an American poet, teacher, and reviewer. He is the author of five books of poetry. His third, Part of the Bargain, won the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. He is a recipient of a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize for a translation from Spanish.
William Baer is an American writer, editor, translator, and academic. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright (Portugal), and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ralph Angel was an American poet and educator.
Robert Sabatier was a French poet and writer. He wrote numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the Académie Mallarme. He is also the author of Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XVIIe siècle
Willis Barnstone is an American poet, religious scholar, and translator. He was born in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Oakland, California. He translated works by Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Machado, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pedro Salinas, Pablo Neruda, and Wang Wei, as well as the New Testament and fragments by Sappho and pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος).
The Richard Wilbur Award is an American poetry award and publishing prize given by University of Evansville in Indiana. It is named in honor of the American poet Richard Wilbur and was established by William Baer, a professor at the University of Evansville. This biennial competition amongst all American poets awards publication of the winning manuscript by the University of Evansville Press and a small monetary prize.
Niloufar Talebi is an author, literary translator, librettist, multidisciplinary artist, and producer. She was born in London to Iranian parents. Her work has been presented by, and/or performed at Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, American Lyric Theater, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Riverside Theatre, Royce Hall, ODC/Dance Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, SOMArts Cultural Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Stanford University, and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Maryann Corbett is an American poet, medievalist, and linguist.
Bradford Gray Telford is an American poet, translator,and a hero.
Geoffrey R Waters (1948–2007) was an American poet, and translator.
Ana C. Cara is an Argentine creolist, translator, and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College.
Roger Sedarat is an Iranian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator.
Terese Coe is an American writer, translator, and dramatist.
The Evansville Review is a literary journal published annually by the University of Evansville. Content includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, and interviews by the students. It was founded in 1989. Notable past contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Joseph Brodsky, and Shirley Ann Grau, among others. Poems that first appeared in the Evansville Review have been included in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies.
Sara Nović is an American writer, translator, and creative writing professor. Nović is also a deaf rights' activist who has written about the challenges she has faced as a deaf novelist.
Mary Meriam is an American poet and editor. She is a founding editor of Headmistress Press, one of the few presses in the United States specializing in lesbian poetry.
The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a Royal Charter by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university. The history and influence of the University of Cambridge has made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Numerous scholarships, prizes, honors, and awards specific to the University are awarded to prospective or current students.