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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
My poem “Alteration Finds“—a trio of pseudo-translations consisting of a versified snippet of Rimbaud prose, a shrink-wrapped Rilke sonnet, and a “straight” translation of a Seferis poem from a language […] Read more ...
The title poem from my first book, “Weighing Light,” is today’s Audio-Poem-of-the-Day at the great Poetry Foundation website. (Text version here.) Read more ...
My poem “Losing a Staring Contest” appears in the latest issue of Literary Matters. I wrote it about my daughter when she was little, but saved it in the wrong […] 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 have a poem about my daughter in the fabulous new issue of Ecotone. This is one of my favorite issues of a literary magazine in ages. Read more ...
My poem “The Mayfly: May 12, 1864,” which originally appeared in the Massachusetts Review, is the poem-of-the-day over at Poetry Daily. (It’s an imitation of Miroslav Holub’s brilliant poem “The […] Read more ...