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NEA and Pushcart Prize-winning poet, translator, and founding editor of Four Way Books, Dzvinia Orlowsky has published five poetry collections with Carnegie Mellon University Press, including A Handful of Bees, reprinted as a CMUP Classic Contemporary edition in 2008. Orlowsky and Jeff Friedman’s translation of Memorials: A Selection by Polish Poet Mieczslaw Jastrun was published…
Becka Mara McKay directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University. Publications include a chapbook of prose poems, Happiness Is the New Bedtime (Slash Pine Press, 2016); a book of poetry, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land (Shearsman Books, 2010); and several translations of fiction and poetry from Modern Hebrew. Her work can be…
Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a prize-winning translator of Polish literature. As well as poetry, she translates contemporary fiction, reportage, essays, and children’s books. Her poetry translations include two collections by Tadeusz Dąbrowski: Black Square (Zephyr Press, 2011), and Posts (Zephyr Press, 2018), and one by Łukasz Jarosz, The Force of Things (Liberodiscrivere 2015). Her translations of…
“I am a farmer, all I own is in the sun and rain.” In the uncultivated prairies of central Alberta, Stephan G. Stephansson (1853–1927) grew life into the land, raised a large family, helped build a thriving community, and composed more than 2,300 pages of poetry and 1,700 pages of prose. After long days in…
In the summer of 1991, I was twenty-two and voraciously read works I was too young to fully absorb. I couldn’t possibly have understood what true regret of a lost love was after a life had already been half-lived.
Behaving authentically in the world is never easy or straightforward; critics like William Gass show us, among many other things, that we are not alone in these questions of authenticity, and that we never really have been.
Estruendomudo was conceived in a living room somewhere in Lima, Peru. A group of writers, led by 22-year-old Álvaro Lasso, knew they wanted to publish books but had yet to learn how. Thirteen years later, Estruendomudo is an internationally respected house, with offices in Chile and Peru.
Pound, a white man who couldn’t speak or read a word of Chinese, was not even necessarily attempting to faithfully recreate Cathay’s poems in English; he rewrote the poems to fit into American modernist aesthetics, bringing ancient Chinese poetry into his own place and time.
Lost to the world for several millennia, Gilgamesh reappeared in 1853, when an archeological team in present-day Iraq discovered a collection of broken clay tablets containing a long poem that predated the Bible and the Homeric epics by as many as 1000 years.
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