[What’s one of your dead telling you,]

Radu Vancu (Sibiu, Romania, 1978) is a Romanian poet, essayist, and translator. For his latest poetry collection, he was awarded the title of “Best Young Poet of 2012.” Together with Claudiu Komartin, he is the coeditor of the anthologies Best Romanian Poems of the Year (2010, 2011, and 2012). He has translated novels and poetry (two ample selections from Ezra Pound and John Berryman). He is assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters and Arts at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and editor of two cultural magazines, Poesis International and Transilvania, and organizer of the International Poetry Festival in Sibiu.

Tara Skurtu teaches incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Poet Lore, Plume, Memorious, DMQ Review, B O D Y, and Tahoma Literary Review.