August 8, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – August
Forget the Pulitzers. Forget the MacArthur “Genius” grant, The New Yorker, and all the other laurels too. The greatest honor for a poet—and for a poem—is to be known by […]
May 31, 2019
Why American Poets Ought to Translate More Poems
As literary translators go, I am mostly a fraud, and thus beset by a fear that all frauds—from TV psychics to reality TV presidents—share: to be exposed by those who […]