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 ...
Author Archives: Geoffrey Brock
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 ...
Pascoli’s “Three Grapes” at Poetry Daily
My thanks to the editors of Poetry Daily, who have chosen “Three Grapes,” my translation of an 1892 epigram by Giovanni Pascoli, from the collection Last Dream, as today’s poem […] Read more ...
Vanishing Acts: Two Posthumous Translations by Frederika Randall
In the new issue of the New York Review of Books, I have a review-essay of two terrific novels translated by the late Frederika Randall: Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing by […] Read more ...
New Sequence in Divining Dante
Today is Dante’s 700th birthday, and to mark the occasion Australia’s Recent Work Press has just published a terrific new anthology called Divining Dante, which opens with my new three-sonnet […] Read more ...
Cambridge Here We Come
I’m delighted to be named the 2021–2022 Arkansas Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge — especially as Padma had already been named the 2021–2022 Arkansas Visiting Fellow at Lucy Cavendish […] Read more ...
Teaching at Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
I’m thrilled to be teaching again for the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, though this year, of course, the classes will be virtual. The conference is a week-long series of workshops […] Read more ...
Two poems in Literary Matters
I’m pleased to have two new poems in the latest issue of Literary Matters: “Street View: A Visitation” (about finding my father’s image on Google Street View several years after […] Read more ...
“Alteration Finds” is the Poem-of-the-Day
My poem “Alteration Finds“—a trio of pseudo-translations consisting of a versified snippet of Rimbaud prose, a shrink-wrapped Rilke sonnet, and a “straight” translation of a Seferis poem from a language […] Read more ...
“Weighing Light” is the Poem-of-the-Day
The title poem from my first book, “Weighing Light,” is today’s Audio-Poem-of-the-Day at the great Poetry Foundation website. (Text version here.) Read more ...