Reading by Rebecca Suzuki, Winner of the Loose Translations Prize

Moderated by Roger Sedarat

Join the English Department for a reading by Rebecca Suzuki, winner of the Loose Translation Award. The award offers publication by Hanging Loose Press of a book-length literary translation from any language and in any genre to current or former Queens College MFA students. When My Mother is Most Beautiful, which is the product of this award, is at once a powerful love letter to a mother and to language itself, delving into complex questions of family, communication, culture, and connection. These poems chronicle the difficult art of navigating multiple cultural identities, examining how languages twist and morph across cultures through the imperfect act of translation, how they bind people together and keep them apart, and even how they could be reimagined to make a better world. We are proud to partner with Hanging Loose on this award, which brings vibrant new voices to the translation community, and we are proud of Rebecca and what she has been able to accomplish here!