Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, French Studies Program, and Written Arts Program Present

A Reading by French Poet Marie de Quatrebarbes

Marie de Quatrebarbes will be reading from her book The Vitals (Les Vivres, P.O.L., 2021), recently translated by Aiden Farrell and published by World Poetry, 2025. The Vitals, her debut in English translation, is an elegiac long poem in the form of a fragmentary journal that tracks the loss of a loved one.

Marie de Quatrebarbes is the author of several books of poetry, as well as a novel inspired by the life of Aby Warburg, and the recipient of the 2020 Paul-Verlaine Prize from the Academie Française. She published La tête et les cornes, a poetry and translation review, republished the complete poems of Michel Couturier (L’ablatif absolu, La tête et les cornes), and edited an anthology dedicated to contemporary poetry by young French women (Madame tout le monde, Le Corridor bleu). The Vitals (World Poetry, 2025) is her first book in English translation. Since 2023, she is the co-manager of the French publishing house Éditions Corti. She lives and works in Paris.

Aiden Farrell is a poet, translator and editor. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in poetry and translation, he is the managing editor of Futurepoem, where he has worked since 2018.
 

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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