In the Belly of Words By Durs Grünbein An Essay in Honor of Aleš Steger A few days ago, I was surprised by a news report. In the article,…
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Forum: Poets and Borders Editor’s Note: On January 25, 2017 Donald Trump signed an executive order for the construction of the border wall. As many of us protest against yet…
Trembling of the City by Hagit Grossman, tr. Benjamin Balint 92 pages Shearsman Books, 2016, £9.95 / $17 ISBN 9781848614772 Hagit Grossman’s Trembling but Open Space Trembling of the…
Judy Halebsky’s book of poems, Sky=Empty (New Issues, 2010) was chosen by Marvin Bell as the winner of the New Issues Prize, a first book award, and was also a finalist for the California Book Award. With a collective of Tokyo poets, she edits and translates the bilingual poetry journal Eki Mae. She lives at Ocean Beach in the outer edges of San Francisco and teaches at Dominican University of California.
G.A. Chaves (Costa Rica, 1979) is the author of Cuentos etcétera (stories, 2004), and Vida ajena (poems, 2010). He has translated an anthology of poems by Robinson Jeffers and Dancing…
INTERVIEW OF MOSHE DOR, poet, and BARBARA GOLDBERG, translator By Poetry International December 2012 Moshe Dor, born in Tel Aviv in 1932, is a major figure in contemporary Israeli literature. …
Joudah’s debut collection of poetry, The Earth in the Attic (2008), won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and was a finalist for ForeWord’s Book of the Year Award. Joudah translated the final three collections of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s work in The Butterfly’s Burden (2006), which was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Ming Di (penname for Mindy Zhang) is a Chinese poet and translator living in the United States. She is co-founder and editor of Poetry East West, a Chinese-English bilingual literary magazine published in Los Angeles and Beijing.
César Vallejo, one of the greatest South American poets of the 20th century, wrote about politics as well as spirituality and sexuality, and though he wrote just three books in…
by Jill Frischhertz Requiem (the first two sections) Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected – I shared all this with my own people There, where misfortune had…