SoH_S03E09_Maggie_Smith_SEG_1_mix_2.mp3

How to Find Your Silver Linings

Do you fixate on what's going wrong in your life? Poet and "recovering pessimist" Maggie Smith practices looking on the bright side.

The Science of Happiness 

unscripted.urayoannoel.mp3

Lost in Translation: Urayoán Noel Gives Poet Cesar Vallejo a Digital Makeover

Urayoan Noel knows how to have fun with language and poetry. For one of his latest experiments, Noel took Cesar Vallejo, an iconic and widely recognized Peruvian poet, and put him through a digital translation process. He read poems from Cesar Vallejo’s Trilce into a voice-recognition program and wrote down the English translations that the software came up with. The result is an unintelligible English-language version of Vallejo’s already complex poems.Here’s an <a href="http://jacket2.org/reviews/equal-footing">example</a>, with the original in Spanish followed by the English translation according to Noel’s voice-recognition program:      Era era.    Gallos cancionan escarbando en vano.Boca del claro día que conjuga.era era era era.                                                  Data Data    Dido scans the owner is co-bundle in buyingoh and I will be ethical toa data in data and data       So what did Noel learn about Vallejo after putting him through this digital translation process? In this episode Noel talks to host Daniel Alarcón about this and other experiments in poetry and translation.You can read more about Urayoán Noel and his work on his personal <a href="http://urayoannoel.com/">website</a>, and you can also follow him on Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/urayoannoel"> @urayoannoel</a>.

Silvia Viñas

Radio Ambulante: Unscripted

Arts, Culture & Media

Special Guest: Thomas Lynch

Special Guest: Sarah Jones

Poet Donald Hall on Memorials

Inspiration in Theater, Poetry, and Jazz

Poet Fernando Pessoa

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza speak to the press in Gitega, Burundi. 

Conflict

US Ambassador Samantha Power: 'The match could be laid' to ignite Burundi conflict

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