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George Kalogeris is the author of a book of poems based on the life of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer, 2006). He is currently working on a collection of translations entitled Dialogos.
James Kenneson’s fiction, non-fiction and satires have appeared in Harper’s, Commonweal and elsewhere. His translation of Fountain and Tomb by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz will be published this fall by Three Continents Press. He lives in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
Author of 9 books of poems, most recently Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004) Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2003), Heartwall (UMass, 2000 Juniper Prize), Svetovi Narazen (Slovenia, 2001). A limited edition small press book, Falling Stars: A Collection of Monologues (Flagpond Press, 2002) and Richard Jackson: Greatest Hits (2004),…
Hatif Janabi was born in Iraq in 1953. Since 1976 he has lived as an exile in Poland, where he has published five bilingual volumes of poetry. The winner of numerous poetry prizes in Poland, he earned a Ph.D. in drama from Warsaw University, where he now teaches Arabic literature and world drama. His poems, essays,…
ANSELM HOLLO, born in Finland (1934), was the first poet to translate Yevtushenko, Kirsanov, Voznesensky et. al. into English (Red Cats, City Lights Books, 1962). The author of twelve books of poems and translations, he teaches at the Writer’s Workshop at Iowa. Maya: Works 1959-69 is his latest book to date.
These are new poems, written during Miroslav Holub’s stay in the United States in the spring of 1985. His most recent collection in English, still unpublished in Czech, is Interferon, or, on Theater, translated by David Young and the author, and published in the Field Translation Series (#7).
Seamus Heaney, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, published numerous volumes of poetry, criticism, and translation. Heaney had been a resident of Dublin, but from 1981 he spent part of each year teaching at Harvard University, where in 1984 he was elected the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.
Guillevic, born in 1907, is a major French poet, whose works in English translation include: Selected Poems, by Eugene Guillevic, translated by Denise Levertov, New Directions, 1969. Selected Poems, by Eugene Guillevic, translated by Teo Savory, Penguin, 1974. Euclidians, translated by Teo Savory, Unicorn Press, 1975
Alexander Gurevich, born in 1959 in Leningrad, is a mathematician by education. He has published two books in his own translation, and his poems have appeared in The Human Foundation and The Star. Since 1993, he has worked as an interpreter for American oil explorers. “Komi” and other poems by Gurevich will appear in an upcoming anthology of Petersburg…
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