On Wednesday, February 21, Yasmine Seale will hold poetry workshop with students at Bard College Annandale. On Thursday, February 22, she will then hold a talk on translating Sindbad in relation to the history of the diamonds and paper trade. She will be introduced by Bard College faculty member, Elizabeth Holt. 

Yasmine Seale’s work includes poetry, criticism, translation and visual art. Her essays on literature, art and film have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Paris Review, 4Columns and elsewhere. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton), described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”, and Something Evergreen called Life, a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She is the coauthor of Agitated Air, a collaboration with Robin Moger responding to the visionary poet and metaphysician Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press). She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.