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Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Ph.D., professor emerita in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, attended the First Conference of Ibero-American Poets: Poets in New York<\/a> (\u201cEncuentro de Poetas Iberoamericanos: Poeta en Nueva York<\/a>“) at Barnard College at Columbia University from March 4-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As part of the event, Gac-Artigas chaired the panel \u201cBridging Voices: Poetry and Translation\u201d and presented her paper \u201cParticular Challenges in Poetry Translation<\/a>.\u201d The panel also featured poet-translators John Burns (Bard College, U.S.), Linda Morales Caballero (Peru\/U.S.), and Miguel Falquez Certain (Colombia\/U.S.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPoetry translators do not simply communicate meaning; they must breathe life into the poem, give it a soul in another language,\u201d said Gac-Artigas. \u201cIt is essential to know both the author and the text inside and out. They must balance fidelity to the original with the creative adaptation necessary to evoke the same emotions and meanings in a new cultural context.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s Encuentro, the first one in New York, paid tribute in memoriam to Federico de On\u00eds, founder of the Institute of the Spanish-Speaking World at Columbia University, and to Argentinian poet and scholar Lila Zemborain, co-founder of the master\u2019s program in creative writing in Spanish at NYU. Additionally, it honored Puerto Rican poet, writer, and scholar Giannina Braschi, who became the first woman to receive the Fray Luis de Le\u00f3n Medal, an international poetry prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cEncuentro de Poetas Iberoamericanos\u201d originated in Salamanca, Spain, in 1998, when Peruvian poet Alfredo P\u00e9rez Alencart, in collaboration with the Ayuntamiento de Salamanca (Salamanca City Council), founded the gathering to celebrate the richness and diversity of Ibero-American poetry. In 2023, the Encuentro expanded to Mexico under the direction of poet Carmen Nozal, and in 2025, it reached New York City, organized by Argentinian poet and editor Mar Russo, strengthening the literary ties between Salamanca and New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gac-Artigas is a Fulbright Scholar, a full member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE for its acronym in Spanish), and a correspondent member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Ph.D., professor emerita in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, attended the First Conference of Ibero-American Poets: Poets in New York (\u201cEncuentro de Poetas Iberoamericanos: Poeta en Nueva York“) at Barnard College at Columbia University from March 4-7. As part of the event, Gac-Artigas chaired the panel \u201cBridging Voices: Poetry and Translation\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":633,"featured_media":40802288008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,423],"tags":[],"person":[632],"audience":[8],"school":[239],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802287952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","person-pgacarti","audience-faculty","school-foreign-language-studies"],"squareimage":{"id":40802288005,"rendered":"\"Promotional","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/Priscilla-Gac-Artigas-Conference-Barnard-C.jpg","width":1264,"height":1264}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802287952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802288107,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287952\/revisions\/40802288107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802288008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802287952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802287952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802287952"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802287952"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802287952"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802287952"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802287952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}