“Exile’s Letter” is stuck in Edmund White’s head February 6, 2012: We've written about the Paris Review's "The Poem Stuck in My Head" series before (here and here). But that's because we like it so much. In the latest installment, Edmund White reflects on "Exile's Letter," a poem by Li Po, translated by Ezra Pound: Ezra Pound’s beautiful translation of a poem by Li Po, from Pound’s great early book Cathay, [...] by Harriet Staff

The emotional hang-ups of Google’s poetry translation software January 17, 2011: Google researcher Dmitriy Genzel talks to NPR's All Things Considered about the advancements in training artificial intelligence to recognize, translate, and maintain the characteristics of poetry. Last week, IBM pitted its computer Watson-- programmed to understand human speech-- against Jeopardy! champions and carried the day (or at least the [...] by Poetry News

Proceeding Translation: Brandon Brown & David Larsen February 3, 2010: UPDATE: Given the high volume of comments below, I thought it would be a good idea to post responses by David Larsen and Brandon Brown in the body of the post. Below this stands my original post (for first time readers of this post), and below that the comments to which Larsen and Brown are partially responding to. David LARSEN: 2 things: [...] by Thom Donovan

Caroline Bergvall’s Lingual Sculptures January 26, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Bergvall-Caroline-Via-20041.mp3] Caroline Bergvall is a poet and text-based artist of Norwegian and French descent working out of London. I first heard Bergvall read at Blue Stockings, a wonderfully resilient little bookstore in the Lower East Side. As discussed in my [...] by Sina Queyras