Poet and literary translator Sholeh Wolpé will be at Lake Tahoe Community College on Oct. 12 at 8pm in the Roberta Mason Library for a free reading.

Wolpé will sign copies of her books, which will be for sale at the event, and answer audience questions..
 
Wolpé is an Iranian-born poet, writer, and translator whose works include four collections of poetry, two plays, four books of translations, and three anthologies.

Wolpé’s modern translation of “The Conference of the Birds” by the 12th century Iranian mystic poet Attar (W.W. Norton) has been hailed by Reza Aslan as a translation that “is sure to be as timeless as the masterpiece itself.” Wolpé ’s writings have been translated into 11 languages and are included in numerous American and international anthologies and journals of poetry and fiction.