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Noted poet Peter Cole is the inaugural Franke Visiting Fellow Renowned artist and scholar Peter Cole will serve as the inaugural Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center during the fall semester. A long-term resident of Jerusalem, Cole is a distinguished American poet and translator. He is also one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press devoted to the dissemination of medieval and modern literature of the Middle East, originally composed in Hebrew, Arabic, French, Turkish and Greek. Cole is the author of two acclaimed volumes of poetry, "Rift" and "Hymns & Qualms." His prize-winning translations of the Hebrew Golden Age poets Shmuel Hanagid and Solomon Ibn Gabirol, among others, have helped to recreate the world of medieval Spain, in which Jewish artistic and intellectual communities flourished under Islamic rule. More recently, Cole has rendered into English the contemporary Arabic works of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali as well as Hebrew political poems by Aharon Shabtai and the novels of Yoel Hoffmann. His larger poetic projects include "The Dream of the Poem," a forthcoming anthology of Hebrew poetry of the Iberian Peninsula, from its 11th-century beginnings through the forced expulsions of 1492. Cole will deliver a lecture titled "Real Gazelles in Imaginary Gardens: Art and Scholarship in the Translation of Medieval Hebrew Poetry from Spain" at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 5, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public. He will also co-lead a panel discussion on "Why Translation Matters" with Yale University Press Director John Donatich on Oct. 17. The panel will form an integral part of the series of events associated with the Whitney Humanities Center's annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values (headed this year by Princeton historian Anthony Grafton) and will feature a number of other prominent translators, literary critics and publishers. In addition, as a Whitney Fellow, Cole will participate in weekly talks with other fellows, and he will be the guest at a master's tea for humanities majors. He and his wife, Adina Hoffman -- an essayist and literary and film critic and the co-editor with Cole of Ibis Editions -- will live as residential fellows of Calhoun College. The Franke Visiting Scholars and Artists Program was made possible by the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Franke of Chicago. The Frankes have already endowed the Whitney Humanities Center's annual series of lectures and seminars. Their latest gift and the creation of this special residential fellowship is designed to ensure ongoing interdisciplinary exchange and creative debate at the Whitney Humanities Center and more widely on the Yale campus.
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