Thursday, November 5th, 5pm, North Hall 1006
We are delighted to welcome Lorna Goodison, one of the Caribbean's most distinguished poets and Poet Laureate of Jamaica (2017–2020), for a remote lecture on her recent translation of Dante's Inferno. The talk will be moderated by Prof. Giancarlo Tursi and open to all. This event is co-sponsored by the UCSB Program in Translation Studies. We hope to see you there!
Lorna Goodison was born in Kingston, Jamaica. A painter before she turned her focus to poetry, Goodison was educated at the Jamaica School of Art and the School of the Art Students League in New York. She was appointed poet laureate of Jamaica in 2017. In 2018, she received a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, and in 2019, she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. A member of the Jamaican National Commission to UNESCO, Goodison was awarded Jamaica’s Musgrave Gold Medal in 1999. She also received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas for her second book of poetry, I am Becoming My Mother (1986). She is also Professor Emerita of English and of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.