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Patrick Phillips’ first book, Chattahoochee, received the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and his second, Boy, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review, and his translations of the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt received the Translation Prize of…

Phillis Levin was born in Paterson, New Jersey and educated at Sarah Lawrence College and The Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University. She was a full-time member of the creative writing faculty at The University of Maryland from 1989 to 2001. She has taught poetry workshops and tutorials at The Unterberg Poetry Center of…

ELINI FOURTOUNI’S Greek Women Poets (Thelepheni Press) won the 1979 Islands and Continents Translation award. She currently holds an N.E.A. fellowship to translate diaries of Greek women held prisoner during World War II.

ANDY AND CHRISTINA WYLIE. Andy’s translations from the Italian are well known. He and Christina, until recently, operated The Red Book, a gathering place for Cambridge poets, and promoted a highly successful series of local readings.

ANDY AND CHRISTINA WYLIE. Andy’s translations from the Italian are well known. He and Christina, until recently, operated The Red Book, a gathering place for Cambridge poets, and promoted a highly successful series of local readings.

Daisy Zamora, the author of three widely acclaimed books of poetry in Spanish, lives in Managua, Nicaragua. Two collections of her work have been published in translation in the United States: Clean Slate (Curbstone) and Riverbed of Memory (City Lights). She was featured in the recent Bill Moyers PBS series The Language of Life and is editor of Pensamiento Proprio, a journal dedicated…

Ruth Whitman is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Testing of Hanna Senesh. Her seventh book, Laughing Gas: Poems Selected and New 1963-1989, as well as her third book of translations from Yiddish poetry, The Fiddle Rose: Poems 1970-1972 by Abraham Sutzkever, will be published in 1990.

Richard Wilbur, American poet, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his own work, and the Bollingen Prize for his translations.

Charles Kenneth Williams was born on November 4, 1936, in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. After attending high school in Maplewood, New Jersey, Williams enrolled in Bucknell College but later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied philosophy and English. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1959. …