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 ...
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,” a poem from my first book, is the Audio-Poem-of-the-Day over at the Poetry Foundation. (Text version here.) Read more ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...