Presented in Collaboration with Wake Forest University Department of English, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Office of the Dean of the College and Global Wake Forest. This event will take place in the Hanes Art Gallery on Tuesday, October 8 at 5:30 pm, it is free and open to the public.

Translation Artist Sawako Nakayasu works with language, performance, and translation, separately and in various combinations.  She has lived mostly in the US and Japan but briefly in France and China and translates from Japanese.  Her books include Some Girls Walk Into The Country They are From (Wave Books), Pink Waves (Omnidawn), The Ants (Les Figures Press), Texture Notes (Letter Machines), and the translation of The Collected Powers of Chika Sagawa (Penguin Random House), as well as Mouth: Eats Color - Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, & Originals (Rouge Factorial), a multilingual work of both original and translated poetry.   She is co-editor, with Eric Selland, of an anthology of 20th Century Japanese Poetry (forthcoming, New Directions).  She teaches at Brown University in the Department of Literary Arts.