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Poetry in Translation

Date
Mon November 11th 2024, 6:00pm
Event Sponsor
Department of English
Location
Building 460, Margaret Jacks Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 460, Stanford, CA 94305
Terrace Room (Room 426)

Peter Levitt and Rebecca Nie will be reading from Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women (2022).

Peter Levitt is an American poet whose many books include Within Within, One Hundred Butterflies and Bright Root, Dark Root. His translations from Chinese include The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan (translated with Kazuaki Tanahashi) and Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women (translated with Rebecca Nie). He has been a Zen practitioner for more than fifty years.

Rebecca Nie is an American Huaren Zen master of the Korean Jogye Order and the Buddhist Chaplain-Affiliate at Stanford University.