Olga Broumas (trans.) is a poet, translator, and bodywork therapist. Her most recent books are Perpetua and the translation of Elytis’s The Little Mariner, both from Copper Canyon Press. She teaches at Brandeis University and at Body Sound & Text.
Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including Elegy (Graywolf, 2007), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and translations of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher (Graywolf, 2012), and Purgatorio (Graywolf, 2021). She’s received a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She is a professor of English…
Scott Hightower’s third collection, Part of the Bargain, received the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. He is also the recipient of a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. A native of central Texas, he lives and works in New York City.
Robin D.S. Yates is a sinologist, teaching at Harvard. His translation of Wei Chuang’s poetry, with an extensive introduction, and notes, will be published in the near future.
Carolyn Forché is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Blue Hour, published by HarperCollins in 2003. The Angel of History (1994) received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (1982) received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The…
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.
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