Looking forward to reading with my former student Elizabeth Muscari and Arkansas-Tech poetry professor Tori Sharpe tomorrow at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock. Muscari and Sharpe were […] Read more ...
Delighted that one of my Umberto Saba translations, “The Closed Chapel,” was chosen by the current US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze for inclusion in Best Literary Translations 2026, forthcoming in […] Read more ...
I’m of course happy to have been selected for a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council. But I was saddened to learn today that this will be […] Read more ...
I’m chuffed, to use a word the Anglophilic Fernando Pessoa might have liked, to announce that my translation of Pessoa’s one-act “static drama” The Mariner (1915) will be out later […] Read more ...
Delighted to have my poem/adaptation “Goodbye” as the “Poem-A-Day” feature today. It’s a free adaptation of Bella Akhmadulina’s 1960 poem “Прощание,” which is probably best known in English through Jean […] Read more ...
My thanks to poetry editor John Hennessy for including my new poem “Song” in the July Poetry Feature over at The Common. It’s my first appearance in that terrific journal. Read more ...
I was recently invited to contribute an essay on the topic of “untranslatability” to the Poetry Foundation’s “Poets on Translation” series. The result was “Otherwise the Same,” which reaches back […] Read more ...
Nimrod has been around a long time — it was founded in 1956 — but in the past year or so it has received an exciting makeover under the stewardship […] Read more ...
I’m delighted to make my first appearance in Wendy Lesser‘s venerable Threepenny Review. The Spring issue (#181) includes my translation of a short, exquisite poem by Italian poet Paolo Febbraro. Read more ...
My translation of Marco Missiroli‘s moving Italian novel Avere tutto (“having everything”) — published in English as The Rabbit Punch — has just come out in the UK from Sceptre […] Read more ...