A Conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze and U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

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U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze and U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage will join the stage for the first time, to discuss their new books: Sze’s “Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry” and Armitage’s “Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation.” A book signing will follow.

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor, and in 2025 he was named the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, including “Into the Hush” (2025) and “The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems” (2025); “The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems” (2021); “Sight Lines” (2019), for which he won the National Book Award; “Compass Rose” (2014); “The Ginkgo Light” (2009); “Quipu” (2005); “The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–1998” (1998); and “Archipelago” (1995). He also authored “Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry” (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, 2026), “The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry” (2024), and edited “Chinese Writers on Writing” (2010). His poetry has been translated into fifteen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Sze received the 2025 Bollingen Prize for lifetime achievement in American poetry, the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among others. A chancellor emeritus of…

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