Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. Three French poets and five American poets walk into a bar...OK...OK...so one of the American poets lives in Berlin and another is also a visual artist. And it was really a cultural institute that they walked into. And spent a week translating each other's work. Trading notes. Lounging in the garden. Improvising solutions—and walking into the bar across the street. This is READ. Read the results.
Sarah Riggs is the author of five books of poetry in English: Waterwork (2007), Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (2007), 60 Textos (2010), Autobiography of Envelopes (2012), and Pomme & Granite (2015). She has translated and co-translated six books of contemporary French poetry into English, including most recently Oscarine Bosquet’s Present Participle and Etel Adnan’s Time. Sarah Riggs lives in Brooklyn, NY.