For the past few months I’ve been working with a team of translators on the Heart Mountain Translation Project courtesy of the @HeartMountainWY

Our task was to translate the first two volumes of the ハート山文芸誌, a literary journal entirely written, compiled and edited by and for Japanese American who were incarcerated at this lesser known internment camp in rural northwestern Wyoming from 1942-1945.

Today I’ll be doing a reading of some of the poems I translated and having a discussion with @monstersihavebeen about what it was like to translate this heartbreaking but really valuable material left behind by these JA ancestors

This reading is part of a week long series on translation hosted by @santjordinyc Tune in from 3:30-4 PM EST here: