Events

    Join us for an evening of poetry in translation! *Winner of India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi prize and author of numerous books of poetry and prose, Bengali poet Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay is among the most important poets of his generation. Poet and translator of Mukhopadhyay's The Cat Under the Stairs Robert McNamara is the author of two books and teaches at the UW. *Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women reveals Bengali women’s truths of heart and mind in a changing society. Carolyne Wright has published eight award-winning books and chapbooks of her own poetry, and three other volumes of poetry in translation. She lives in Seattle and is teaching this year in North Carolina.