A big thank-you to Chenxin Jiang for talking to me about my translation of Silvia Vecchini’s wonderful YA verse novel Before Nightfall. The interview is part of “Italian Lit Month,” […] Read more ...

I’m grateful to Lorna Knowles Blake for her kind review of After in the summer issue of the ever-excellent Hudson Review. Blake writes that “a father figure can cast a […] Read more ...

Elena Borelli has produced an excellent podcast about the Convivial Poems of Giovanni Pascoli. The seven episodes feature conversations with various Pascoli translators and scholars, including James Ackhurst, Maria Truglio, […] Read more ...

It was a pleasure to chat again with local legend Kyle Kellams, on his long-running show Ozarks at Large, about my three recent books: After (my new book of poems), […] Read more ...

Delighted to return to the pages of Ecotone — one of my favorite lit mags ever — with this quasi-villanelle from my new book, After. It’s a special issue on […] Read more ...

Delighted to be appearing again in the virtual pages of Literary Matters, superbly edited as always by Ryan Wilson. Issue 16.2 features two poems (“Betrayal” and “The Shingle Street Shell […] Read more ...

Two brand new books — After (my first new collection of poems in a decade) and Before Nightfall (my translation of a YA verse novel by Silvia Vecchini) — and […] Read more ...

I’m looking forward to launching my new book of poems, After, at the University of Tulsa next week. I’m especially pleased because I’ll be reading with Boris Dralyuk, author of […] Read more ...

Today is the official publication day for Before Nightfall, a moving YA verse novel by Silvia Vecchini, illustrated by Sualzo, translated by me, and published by NYRB Kids. Here’s a […] Read more ...

My thanks to editor George David Clark for including a poem of mine — “Annunciation,” about my father’s cancer diagnosis, as seen through the lens of Simone Martini — in […] Read more ...