Marella Feltrin-Morris (World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) Publishes Poem Translation

By Penny Bogardus, October 11, 2024

Marella Feltrin-Morris (World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) has published a translation into Italian of the poem "A Proclamation for Peace" by former Oregon poet laureate Kim Stafford

The translation appears in the volume, A Proclamation for Peace: Translated for the World, edited by Allison deFreese and Kim Stafford (Little Infinities, 2024). The book features translations of the poem into 50 languages including Arabic and Hebrew, Russian and Ukrainian, Tibetan and Mandarin, Tamil, Vietnamese, Polish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya and many others. The book also includes translator's notes and QR codes for recorded versions of each translation. https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/01/kim-stafford-a-proclamation-for-peace/Feltrin-Morris's translation had previously appeared in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/july/proclamation-peace-many-languages-kim-stafford-compiled-allison-defreese