Translation

Judy Halebsky works collaboratively to translate poetry between Japanese and English. With Tomoyuki Endo, she translated Mizho Ishida’s poem “Moon Dog,” which was published in Two Lines in 2018. With Yuka Tsukagoshi, she has co-translated Tsukagoshi’s poems. These poems have appeared in Poetry Kanto, Japan’s longest-running bilingual poetry journal, and in Big Bridge.  From 2009–2011, Tsukagoshi, Halebsky, and Ayumu Akutsu edited and translated the bilingual poetry journal Eki Mae. Vol. 1  ,  Vol. 2, and Vol. 3 are online.

Currently, Halebsky is conducting research with Ayako Takahashi on haiku traditions and ecopoetics through a grant funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Their co-written article, “Basho’s Haiku and Essays in Contemporary North American Poetry,” was published in International Cultural Expression Studies in 2016. Together, they are working to assemble and translate an ecopoetry anthology in both Japanese and English. The anthology includes an interview with Brenda Hillman and translations of Wago Ryoichi’s post-Fukushima poems.