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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I’m delighted to have two pieces in the “Feverish” issue of The Literary Review: a poem called “Totem” (a sonnet about my father that owes a debt to the first […] Read more ...
My translation of Giovanni Pascoli’s great poem “Fog,” which originally appeared in PN Review and just came out in the volume Last Dream (World Poetry Books, 2019), is the Poem-of-the-Day […] Read more ...
I have a longish (for me) poem called “Midwinter Letter,” about the 2016 election and my father’s death, in the new issue of the Yale Review, as well as a […] Read more ...