The Woodberry Poetry Room is pleased to announce that the recipient of this year’s WPR Creative Fellowship is Rosa Alcalá for her project “Beyond Opposing Pages: Poets and Their Translators in Performance.” She will receive a $5,000 stipend and a one-week residency at the Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It also gives us immense pleasure to announce that Gbenga Adesina has been selected as the recipient of this year’s WPR Creative Grant for his project “Re-Memory.” He will receive a stipend of $2,500. Both winners will receive year-long access to the Poetry Room (and a range of other Harvard libraries and resources), as well as extensive research support from the curatorial staff. We look forward to welcoming them during the 2023-2024 academic year. About the Project: During her fellowship, poet and translator Rosa Alcalá will study WPR audio and video recordings of poets reading alongside their translators “to explore how the relationship between poet and translator, between original and translation, and between these and the audience, is revealed beyond the page. By noting the interplay of texts …