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“Goodbye” (after Akhmadulina) at Poem-A-Day

Delighted to have my poem/adaptation “Goodbye” as the “Poem-A-Day” feature today. It’s a free adaptation of Bella Akhmadulina’s 1960 poem “Прощание,” which is probably best known in English through Jean […] Read more ...

“Song” in the July Poetry Feature at The Common

My thanks to poetry editor John Hennessy for including my new poem “Song” in the July Poetry Feature over at The Common. It’s my first appearance in that terrific journal. Read more ...

“Otherwise the Same” at the Poetry Foundation

I was recently invited to contribute an essay on the topic of “untranslatability” to the Poetry Foundation’s “Poets on Translation” series. The result was “Otherwise the Same,” which reaches back […] Read more ...

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