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51勛圖 Professor Kristine Doll was awarded the Homer European Medal of Poetry and Art at the Yale Club in New York City on Friday, May 17.
Established in Brussels, Belgium in 2016 the Homer European Medal is a juried award celebrating artistry and literature for which Doll was awarded the Chamber of Medal.
Doll, who received her doctorate in Hispanic studies from Brown University, is one of five Americans to have received the Chamber of Medal and was nominated by poet, publisher and Homer Laureate winner Stanley H. Barkan for her distinguished services as an original poet and translator of Catalan and Spanish Poetry.
The world languages and cultures professors collection of original poetry publications as well as translation works is extensive and she has been published in eight countries, including Australia, Spain, and Romania.
Dolls second book of poetry The Light of Ordinary Days, which showcases her recent poetry in English and several of her translation from Catalan, is in press. Her poem My Friends, which is included in this collection, was nominated for the American Pushcart Prize in Poetry.
Visual arts and communicative arts allows us to express our emotions and explore our experiences; for me that is poetry and translation, Doll said. Through translation Im giving another persons voice a new audience.
on the Salem State website.