Benny Andersen and I will read excerpts from the new dual-language volume of poetry and talk about our experiences working together. This is the first translation of his poetry published in the US in over forty years.
Although I usually read from my Danish translations, Thursday December 14 at 7pm, I will read from my own original poetry as part of the end celebration for 30 Poems in November, a fundraiser for the Center for New Americans. The event will take place at Smith College, Wright Hall. Link here: http://centerfornewamericans.weebly.com/30-poems-in-november.html
I will be reading at this event to launch this anthology of poems which all have their settings in the Pioneer Valley. Hosted by Jane Yolen.
Join me and other poets at the Northampton Center for the Arts for an informal but productive sharing and critiquing of our original work. Each poet brings one poem to share and get feedback about. I do a short monologue in the middle of the sessions which run 2 1/2 hours, usually 1-3:30pm on a […]
Join me at Smith College's Poetry Center for a presentation of the Penguin Classic DEPENDENCY, which I translated. There will be refreshments followed by a reading and discussion of the book. Dependency: A story of impulse and addiction Translator Michael Favala Goldman picked up the memoir GIFT by renowned Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen in the Copenhagen Airport […]
Join me and Easthampton City Arts+ for an evening of poetry on zoom. https://www.facebook.com/events/1600482260111471
Michael moderates the Poetry Critique Meet-up which is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance. Learn what is working in your poems, and what may need revision. Contribute your observations to other poets. Be fascinated by the breadth of the written word.
American-Scandinavian Foundation invites you to a virtual panel discussion on Tove Ditlevsen’s The Copenhagen Trilogy, in celebration of its publication in English translation by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman beginning January 26. In this event, translator Michael Favala Goldman and authors Morten Høi Jensen (A Difficult Death), Rachel Kushner (The Mars Room), and Ben Lerner […]
I will be reading three love poems at this event. Event Details: Fill your heart and soul during an evening marrying romance and comedy with the PVS and some of your favorite Valley artists from Happier Valley Comedy, Enchanted Circle Theater and Straw Dog Writers’ Guild. Together we’ll explore heartache and romance through singalongs, improv, […]
I’ll be reading a translated short story at this video premiere. This is event is hosted by Meat For Tea, Flywheel Arts Collective and Les Dérailleurs.
Some of us look at a piece of paper and it is blank; others of us look at the landscape of a blank page and are inspired to create. For close to a year, our individual and collective imaginations have been fed by solitude, by injustice, and by the recognition that our communities of neighbors […]
The National Nordic Museum hosts an event to discuss the Copenhagen Trilogy. See event details below: Join us to discuss The Copenhagen Trilogy by Danish author Tove Ditlevsen. In this talk, translator Michael Favala Goldman as well as Professor Marianne Stecher-Hansen will discuss this courageous and honest trilogy from literary icon Tove Ditlevsen—a pioneer in the […]
