Cover reveal for Before Nightfall
Just saw they’ve posted a cover for Silvia Vecchini’s verse novel, Before Nightfall, which I recently translated from Italian for the NYRB Kids imprint. It looks good! Here’s a bit […] Read more ...
poetry
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...