World Poetry

As part of the Spring Humanities Festival 2015, a multilingual poetry reading took place on Tuesday, April 28 at Lorton Performance Center, Meinig Recital Hall:

http://calendar.utulsa.edu/event/multilingual_poetry_reading

The event was conceived as an artistic way to manifest the universal accessibility of poetry as well as the possibilities of cross-cultural communication.  It turned out to be a big-impact success:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-University-of-Tulsa-Department-of-Languages/136844596466539

1.      Lydie Meunier: Henri Michaux, “Le Grand Combat” (French, “The Grand Combat”)

2.      Bruce MacQueen: Leopold Staff, “Radość chwili” (Polish, “The Joy of the Moment”)

3.      Victor Udwin: Walther von der Vogelweide, “Unter der Linden” (German, “Under the Linden”)

4.      Bruce Dean Willis: Manoel de Barros, “O menino que carregava água na peneira” (Portuguese, “The Boy who Carried Water in a Sieve”)

5.      David Tingey: Wolfgang von Goethe, “Wanderers Nachtlied” (German, “Wanderer’s Nightsong”)

6.      Huiwen (Helen) Zhang: Yue Fei, “Man Jiang Hong”(Chinese, “How Red the River”)