More Santana translations @ Hunger Mountain
I’m delighted to see another handful of my translations of Sandra Santana’s marvelous prose poems out in the world. You can find them in the new (online) issue of Hunger […] Read more ...
Author Archives: Geoffrey Brock
Oxford Translation Day: June 10–11
For any of you who may be in range of Oxford, I’ll be giving a talk/reading there on June 10 with the brilliant Nicola Gardini as part of this year’s […] Read more ...
Wolfson’s World Poetry Night
Tomorrow evening I’ll be hosting Wolfson’s World Poetry Night. (It had originally been scheduled for last month, to coincide with UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, but I got the covid.) If […] Read more ...
Reading @ Newburyport on April 30
I’m looking forward to sharing a Zoom stage with Boston poet Danielle Legros Georges from 2-3 pm (eastern time) on Saturday, April 30. We’ll each be reading poems and translations […] Read more ...
Tempo: Excursions in 21st-Century Italian Poetry
Today is the pub date for Luca Paci’s impressive-looking new anthology, Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry. I’m pleased to have a few of my translations included, of poems […] Read more ...
Allegria receives inaugural Joseph Tusiani Prize
My translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Allegria, published in 2020 by Archipelago Books, has received the inaugural Joseph Tusiani Prize from the Journal of Italian Translation. I’m delighted there is now […] Read more ...
Broadsided Press anthology now out
For fifteen years Broadsided Press has been fostering unique collaborations between poets and artists in an effort to encourage the free dissemination of poetry in public places. I’m happy to […] Read more ...
“The Beautiful Animal” is the Poem-of-the-Day
“The Beautiful Animal,” a poem from my first book, is the Audio-Poem-of-the-Day over at the Poetry Foundation. (Text version here.) Read more ...
New poem in Literary Imagination
I have a new poem, “The Field,” in the March 2022 issue of Literary Imagination. It was inspired by Jen Grotz’s beautiful poem “The Forest” and its relation to Randall […] Read more ...
Allegria receives the National Translation Award
My translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s first book, Allegria, published by the amazing Archipelago Books in 2020, received the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry from the American Literary Translators Association. […] Read more ...