My brilliant colleagues Kevin Platt and Paul StAmour let me chat with them on their new podcast fusing literature and music, in Kelly Writers' House. We talked, very predictably, about Homer. and it was fun. jacket2.org/podcasts/emi...

From migrants and colonizers to gossip and war, @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social examines The Aeneid and its relevance to the modern world.

Happy publication day to Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, whose translation of THE AENEID (w/ introduction by THE ODYSSEY and THE ILIAD's @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social) is now available wherever epic works are sold! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I am very excited about my current project: TRANSLATING THE ODYSSEY.

Jazz inspired by the Iliad! www.92ny.org/event/darcy-...

I'm looking forward to visiting Rockport, Maine and talking to Prof. Barbara Boyd on July 16th. www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/07...

This beautiful new metrical verse translation of the Aeneid, by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, with introduction by me, will be available in August. You can pre-order now!

I'll be doing a talk about translating the Iliad in NYC on May 9th. I'll discuss gaps between ancient and modern ideas about violence, humanity and heroism. Free and open to all! hunter.cuny.edu/event/emily-...

Regular iambic pentameter is a traditional poetic form. Unmetrical free verse is much more modern. One isn't better than the other. They have different histories and different sonic registers.

I'll be doing a talk about translating the Iliad in NYC on May 9th. I'll discuss gaps between ancient and modern ideas about violence, humanity and heroism. Free and open to all! hunter.cuny.edu/event/emily-...

youtu.be/_wGFMMBrTzE?... Holy crap! I read the Iliad 50 years ago. It didn't sound like this!

I'm looking forward to discussing Rhodri Lewis' excellent new study of Shakespearean tragedy with him tomorrow (of course it's on the hallowed April 23rd), at the Free Library of Philadelphia. libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...

The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I'll be giving a lecture in Chicago April 24th, 2025. events.uchicago.edu/event/226399...

Tuesday April 1st, 4.30pm, I'll be giving a lecture at the College of Holy Cross McFarland Center, in Worcester MA. All welcome. www.holycross.edu/community/mi...

If you're in Arizona on Tuesday March 25, come to my lecture! asuevents.asu.edu/event/retran...

If you're in Arizona on Tuesday March 25, come to my lecture! asuevents.asu.edu/event/retran...

As a warm-up for their marathon Iliad reading, I am doing an online Q and A tonight with Cornell students and faculty, plus anyone else who wants to log on, March 12th, 4.30-6pm EST. All are welcome. ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/ove...

Coming up March 12 & 13, 'The Iliad in Ithaca' as part of Cornell Arts and Sciences Arts Unplugged series. Virtual panel discussion with @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social and Cornell faculty, and a reading of the work. details, registration: as.cornell.edu/news/war-lov... #ClassicsBluesky

I was very happy to see that Chicago O'Hare airport has an outpost of an excellent independent bookshop, Barbara's Books, with a great selection of contemporary literary fiction and a Classics section that had 2 Wilson Iliads, which I signed. Hurrah for real bookshops! barbarasbookstores.com

Looking forward to a visit to St Mary's College and conversation with Madeline Miller. www.saintmarys.edu/evening-made...

I'll be talking about the Iliad in San Diego Feb 4th. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-annual...

I ask no lovelier thing Than this December silver: See how the light flakes off the new-turned plough Under the slow great swing Of branches, silver-boled… —Dorothy Margaret Paulin, “December Day” published in SCOTTISH RELIGIOUS POETRY, ed. Linden Bicket (Saint Andrew Press, 2024)

I'm looking forward to reading from my various translations at Yale's Beineke Library on Dec 4th for the Mark Strand Memorial Poetry Reading. library.yale.edu/event/2024-m...

I had a great time talking to brilliant Johanna Hanink about translating the Iliad for her new podcast, Lesche.

The world is ruled by fakes who lack the most important thing (=Masculinity/ Magic), which is personified by an exiled Lost Heir, who suffers terribly and fights for underdogs and liberty. There are evil schemes, lavish sets, a ton of makeup, and CGI animals including monkeys. It's GLICKED.

I will be reading in Pittsburgh on December 13, at the International Poetry Forum. www.internationalpoetryforum.org/events

Mindscape 297 | Emily Wilson @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Homer, Poetry and Translation. As a bonus (penalty?), you get to hear me read the openings of both The Iliad and The Odyssey. www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

I watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with my 14 year old. What a weird movie about trauma and abuse that seems to think it's a rom com – and whoah, so very racist. But a fabulous performance by Orangey Minerva, who plays Cat, the only positive male character in the film.

2024 Mark Strand Memorial Reading by Emily Wilson Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm at the Beinecke Library beinecke.library.yale.edu/event/2024-m... @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social

I saw three deer in Philadelphia today – a sign blessings from Artemis, goddess of environmental protections and women's reproductive health. I taught Iphigenia in Aulis yesterday, a great play about political chaos and its terrible human costs. The Cacoyannis movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jD-...

What's good about burning it all down? Patrice Rankine's first of three public talks is on Thursday Nov 14, in the Penn Museum and on zoom. For everyone who cares about education, academia, the humanities, history, race, ways of knowing, & food. Registration link below.

Achilles: Please, Mother, let the leopards eat the faces of all the Greeks! [Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten] Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.

The day after the 2016 referendum in which the British public voted to leave the EU, there was a sharp spike in people googling, "What is the EU?" The day after the 2024 US election, there was a sharp spike (still rising) of people googling "tariffs".

"Classics", from Horace to Jay-Z: if you're interested in the study of antiquity in the academy and beyond, please register for a fascinating trio of talks by Prof. Patrice Rankine, our Penn Public Lecturer of 2024: www.classics.upenn.edu/events/penn-...

Here's a short video of the magical Poets House reading of the Iliad on the Hudson River, featuring wonderful poets/ readers Natalie Shapero, Eugenia Leigh and Nick Flynn. youtu.be/yEClPRg67JY

poetshouse.org/event/the-il... Iliad on the Hudson, Poet’s House, 10/18:

It was a pleasure to talk to Lexie Henning on Ancient Office Hours / Ozymandias Project podcast. This was recorded a while ago and I can't actually remember what we talked about, but here it is! www.theozymandiasproject.com/podcast

I'm gradually essay-izing some old threads on translation, and some will be on substack. Forthcoming later this week will be a new one, some thoughts about my infamous use of "complicated" at the start of the Odyssey. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Congratulations to my friend and neighbor Brooke O'Harra, whose forthcoming book on directing, "Who is in the Room", is a must-read for anyone interested in theater. www.routledge.com/Who-Is-In-th...

Video from the National Book Festival, featuring a beautiful recitation from the Qur'an: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDKW...

I started a Substack, so that I can eventually convert some of my comments on translation from twitter to a different platform. I wrote an initial post about the 4 translations of the beginning of the Odyssey that have been circulated recently. open.substack.com/pub/emily613...

For a few years I've been making a podcast series, Among the Ancients, with Thomas Jones of the @londonreview.bsky.social about ancient Greek and Roman literature. If you're classics-curious, this is a place to start. Almost 20 episodes available so far. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

It was such a pleasure to discuss the Odyssey with Kamila Shamsie yesterday, for the Hay Festival Book Club! @hayfestival.bsky.social @kshams.bsky.social Recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEE0...

Joseph Medeiros' performances of the Odyssey in Greek are amazing. I have seen versions of books 1-3 three times now, and am planning to go to future books any chance I get. Book 4 is now in production and sounds fantastic. theaterlabnyc.com/the-odyssey-...

I'll be talking to the wonderful novelist Kamila Shamsie tomorrow, August 27, about the Odyssey, the Hay Festival Book Club selection. www.hayfestival.com/book-club/au...

Broke: experiencing the Iliad by speed-listening to a dated prose translation of the Odyssey Woke/Bespoke: experiencing the Iliad by listening to Audra Macdonald’s wonderful reading of my verse translation of the actual Iliad, at normal speed

I'll be talking tomorrow, August 24, at the National Book Festival in Washington DC, with MARHabib and Clay Smith, in person and filmed for youtube. Do tune in if you're interested in the complexities and thrills of translating pre-modern texts! www.loc.gov/events/2024-...

It's lovely to read that people at the NYT have formed a book club reading my Iliad translation. I hope people who don't work at the Times will also be encouraged to read aloud and discuss with friends and coworkers. Ancient epics are fun to talk about! www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/i...