Emily Wilson, acclaimed translator of The Iliad (2023) and The Odyssey (2018), will be visiting Pittsburgh to recite a selection of her work at the International Poetry Forum. Doors to Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) open for a drinks reception at 7PM, followed by an 8PM reading and book signing. Guests will be permitted to bring drinks from the foyer bar into the venue for the reading. Tickets are available here.

Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature). She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

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