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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. …

Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry, a collection of essays, and three volumes of poetry translated from Bengali and Spanish. Her previous collection, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Eastern Washington University Press/Lynx House Books), won the Blue Lynx Prize and the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Wright’s investigative…

Peter Viereck’s seventh book of poems, Archer in the Marrow, recently appeared from Norton. His awardwinning translations from the German are from his manuscript Double Star: The Oscillating Orbits of Steffan George and Georg Heym. Greenwood Press recently republished his Pulitzer Prize-winning poems,Terror & Decorum.