Delighted to be appearing again in the virtual pages of Literary Matters, superbly edited as always by Ryan Wilson. Issue 16.2 features two poems (“Betrayal” and “The Shingle Street Shell […] Read more ...

Two brand new books — After (my first new collection of poems in a decade) and Before Nightfall (my translation of a YA verse novel by Silvia Vecchini) — and […] Read more ...

I’m looking forward to launching my new book of poems, After, at the University of Tulsa next week. I’m especially pleased because I’ll be reading with Boris Dralyuk, author of […] Read more ...

Today is the official publication day for Before Nightfall, a moving YA verse novel by Silvia Vecchini, illustrated by Sualzo, translated by me, and published by NYRB Kids. Here’s a […] Read more ...

My thanks to editor George David Clark for including a poem of mine — “Annunciation,” about my father’s cancer diagnosis, as seen through the lens of Simone Martini — in […] Read more ...

I’m delighted that my translation of Chantal Montellier’s Social Fiction has been named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Graphic Novel category. It’s the latest […] Read more ...

More great coverage of my translation of Chantal Montellier’s great trilogy over at The Comics Journal in “The Best of 2023, as Decreed by Our Contributors.” Clark Burscough writes “There’s […] Read more ...

This just in: the capacious Rachel Cooke, writing in The Guardian, has made a list of her five favorite graphic novels of the past year, and not only did Chantal […] Read more ...

It always seems more real once it has become virtual: After won’t be out until April 9, but it has its own page now at Amazon. I can’t say whether […] Read more ...