Pascoli’s “Fog” at Poetry Daily
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 ...
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New Poem & New Translation in Yale Review
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 ...
“And Day Brought Back My Night”: Poem-of-the-Day
A sonnet from my first book, “And Day Brought Back My Night,” with a title pilfered from Milton, is the Audio-Poem-of-the-Day over at the Poetry Foundation. (Text version here.) Read more ...
Six Memos a finalist for PEN Center USA Award
I was very pleasantly surprised to see that my re-translation of Calvino’s great Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a finalist for the 2017 PEN Center USA Literary Award […] Read more ...
Waywiser Reading @ Politics & Prose
During the upcoming AWP Conference in Washington DC, I’ll be reading at an off-site event with a bunch of my press mates, who also happen to be some of my […] Read more ...
“Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh”: Poem-of-the-Day
“Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh: 2 December 1859,” a poem from my book Voices Bright Flags, told from the point of view of Brown’s eldest son, is the Audio-Poem-of-the-Day over […] Read more ...
“Homeland Security” is the Poem-of-the Day
Throwback Wednesday? The Poetry Foundation ran my poem, “Homeland Security,” as their audio Poem-of-the-Day today. The first poem I wrote after moving to Arkansas, it will be included in Voices Bright Flags, forthcoming from Waywiser Press in November. Read more ...
VBF among TLS “Books of the Year”
Voices Bright Flags—together with recent books by Clive Watkins and Joshua Mehigan—got a nice shout out from AE Stallings in the “Books of the Year” section of the latest Times Literary Supplement. It’s a pleasure to be in such fine company and in such fine pages. Read more ...
Poetry Daily bifecta: Poem & Prose
I didn’t have time to post this in a timely fashion, but I’ve had two pieces featured on Poetry Daily this past week. My essay “Exhuming Vallejo” (which originally appeared in this month’s issue of Poetry magazine) was the Prose Feature from November 17 to November 23, and on November 23 my poem “About Opera” (which originally appeared in 32 Poems) )was the” poem of the day. Read more ...
Exhuming Vallejo, Or: The Third Way
“I first read César Vallejo in college, when a Peruvian friend presented me with several of his poems as if they were national treasures she had smuggled through customs. I was struck most forcefully by a strange sonnet called “Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca.” Read more ...