Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of ’24
It was a complete — and very pleasant — surprise to find After included on this terrific list of the best poetry collections of the year. Here’s what they said: […] Read more ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Last Dream receives the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize
My translation of the selected poems of Giovanni Pascoli, Last Dream, published by the excellent World Poetry Books in 2019, was awarded the 2020 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize by the […] Read more ...
Six Memos a finalist for PEN Center USA Award
I was very pleasantly surprised to see that my re-translation of Calvino’s great Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a finalist for the 2017 PEN Center USA Literary Award […] Read more ...
VBF among TLS “Books of the Year”
Voices Bright Flags—together with recent books by Clive Watkins and Joshua Mehigan—got a nice shout out from AE Stallings in the “Books of the Year” section of the latest Times Literary Supplement. It’s a pleasure to be in such fine company and in such fine pages. Read more ...