Through her translations of contemporary Iranian poetry, Niloufar Talebi discusses the step-by-step process of rendering poetry from one language into another.
See here for a sample talk on translation
Thursday April 16, 2000, 7:30 PM
Falkirk Cultural Center
1408 Mission Avenue
Downtown San Rafael, CA
415.485.3328
Interview with Suzi Khatami of KIRN670AM’s ‘Live From Hollywood’ on August 27, 2008.
Interview with J.P. Dancing Bear on Cupertino/Santa Clara’s KKUP poetry show, Out of Our Minds, on August 20, 2008. Audio coming soon.
Interview with Shaindel Beers on BlogTalkRadio on August 14, 2008.
Niloufar Talebi does a multimedia presentation for the ‘Translation in Performance’ panel. Other participants include: Admer Gouryh, a translator of modern Arabic drama who gets the audience acting out the plays; and Maryam Habibian, a Persian translator who depicts Forough Farrokhzad in her one act play/monologue.
Keynote speech by Poet Li-Young Lee.
Queens College
Flushing, NY 11367
4:30 PM, location TBD
Niloufar Talebi reads from BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World at Kepler’s Books.
Event introduced by Firoozeh Dumas, plus surprise poets! 
February 19, 2009, 7:30 PM
Kepler’s Books
1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park CA, 94025
(650) 324-4321
Reading of BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World and book signing
Hosted by the Persian Student Association
Stanford University
Details TBA
We bring you the second annual Iranian Literary Arts Festival, partnering with the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, Friends of the SF Public Library, and the Asia Society.
This year, we celebrate the poetry and poets featured in BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, August 2008).
Events:
Roundtable discussion about the FUTURE of diaspora literature, with poets featured in BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (Abbas Saffari, Majid Naficy, Partow Nooriala, Granaz Moussavi, Ziba Karbassi…), as well as with Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, and SFSU Dept. of Foreign Languages and literatures. Work-in-progress reading of The Outerface of the Innermost (working title), a new piece by Niloufar Talebi (following the 2007 piece, ICARUS/RISE).
Fort Mason Book Bay, San Francisco
6 PM
Honoring poets featured in BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, assembled from all over the world! Reception, reading, and film screening.
Friends of the SF Public Library: SF International Poetry Festival
391 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone 415-626-7500
Fax 415-626-7525
info@friendssfpl.org
6 PM
Fast forward (box in the right column) to 32:00 minutes to hear Niloufar Talebi read from BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the world on BlogTalkRadio, hosted by Rafael F.J. Alvarado & Shaindel Beers. (first 32 minutes are William O Daly, Translator of Pablo Neruda’s “Hands Of The Day”)
“Longing for the past, yet belonging to the present” by Omid Memarian, for Inter Press Service
Niloufar Talebi discusses translation of contemporary Iranian poetry and reads from BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World.
7 PM, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 927-0960
Stay tuned for a detailed listing of BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World readings and events in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego in January 2009.