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features
A poem by Ali Babachahi, translated from Farsi by Marjan Modarres Sabzevari
A poem by Arthur Rimbaud, translated from French by Wyatt Mason
archives
A poem by Julia Wong Kcomt, translated from Spanish by Jennifer Shyue.
A poem by vito m. bonito, translated from Italian by Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Poems by Paul Celan, translated from German by Pierre Joris
Six poems from Franco Loi’s Secundum Lüna, translated from Milanese by Guiliana Chamedes
A poem by Francisco de Quevedo, translated from Spanish by Pamela Greenberg
Three poems by Ma Yan, translated from Chinese by Stephen Nashef
A poem by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
Two poems by Humberto Ak’abal, written in both Maya Ki’ché and Spanish, translated by John Oliver Simon
Six poems by Waly Salomão, translated from Portuguese by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
A poem by Polina Barskova, translated from Russian by Valzhyna Mort
Three poems by Martin Westman, translated from Swedish by Hildred Crill
Three poems by Yang Xiaobin, translated from Chinese by Canaan Morse
A poem by Aleksey Porvin, translated from Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
Two poems by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen
Two poems by Sister Claudia Lee Hae-in, translated from Korean by Esther Kim and Paige Aniyah Morris
A poem by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from Italian by André Naffis-Sahely
A poem by María Lucesole, translated from Spanish by Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman
Two poems by Vladimir Gandelsman, translated from Russian by Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco
A poem by Nabaneeta Dev Sen, translated from Bengali by Nandana Dev Sen
A poem by Knud Sørensen, translated from Danish by Michael Favala Goldman
Four poems by Roman Osminkin, translated from Russian by Helena Kernan
Two poems by Evgenia Rits, translated from Russian by Mark Wingrave
Three poems by Adalber Salas Hernández, translated from Spanish by Robin Myers
Three poems by Stanislava Mogileva, translated from Russian by Josephine von Zitzewitz
A poem by Liliya Gazizova, translated from Russian by Nina Kossman
Two poems by Dmitry Strotsev, translated from Russian by Ian Probstein
Five poems by Evgeny Stepanov, translated from Russian by Anna Halberstadt
Six poems by German Lukomnikov, translated from Russian by Ainsley Morse
A poem by Genrikh Sapgir, translated from Russian by J. Kates
A poem by Andrey Filimonov, translated from Russian by Anton Yakovlev
Two Poems by Oriette D’Angelo, translated from Spanish by Lupita Eyde-Tucker
Two Poems by Mihret Kebede, translated from Amharic by Eric Ellingsen, Jorga Mesfin, and Uljana Wolf
Five poems from Chocar con algo [Crashing Into Things] by Erika Martínez, translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell
A poem by Chung Kwok Keung translated by May Huang
Four poems by Sohrab Sepehri translated by Patrick Sykes
Four poems by Kim Sowohl translated by Sekyo Nam Haines
Two poems by Judita Vaičiūnaitė translated by Rimas Uzgiris
A poem by Dionisio Cañas translated by Orlando Hernández
Three poems by Joachim Sartorius translated by Pauline Fan
Two poems by Osip Mandelstam translated by Alistair Noon
A poem by Hugo Ball in a false translation by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
Two poems by Guido Cupani translated by Patrick Williamson
Two poems by Raoul Ponchon translated by Mark Lager
Four poems by Alain Lance translated by Erika Luckert
Two poems by Dag T. Straumsvåg translated from Norwegian by Robert Hedin
Three poems by Edwin Madrid translated by Julia Velasco
Two poems by Max Jacob translated by Sophia Lecker
Two poems by Olja Savičević Ivančević translated by Andrea Jurjević
Two poems by Gili Haimovich translated by Dara Barnat
Two poems by Kim Yi-deum translated by Jake Levine and Soeun Seo
A translation from the Patanjala Yoga Sutrani by Kanya Kanchana
Two poems by Florbela Espanca translated by Kay Cosgrove
A poem by Maxim Amelin translated from Russian by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher
A poem by Shrawan Mukarung translated from Nepali by Haris Adhikari
Four poems by Gemma Gorga translated from Catalan by Sharon Dolin
Two poems by N. B. Minkov translated from Yiddish by Jordan Finkin
Three poems by James Noël translated by Patricia Hartland
Two Hindi poems by Geet Chaturvedi translated by Anita Gopalan
Two poems by Amanda Reverón translated from Spanish by Don Cellini
Two poems by Allan Popa translated from Filipino by Mabi David and the author
Two excerpts from “Too Clever by Half” by Alexander Griboyedov translated by Betsy Hulick.
Two Old English poems from The Exeter Book translated by Elijah John Petzold
Two poems by Bragi Ólafsson translated from Icelandic by K. T. Billey
Four poems by Georg Trakl, translated from German by Jay Hopler
Ten late poems of Du Fu translated by George Life
Three poems by Idea Vilariño, translated from Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Four poems by Kepa Murua translated from the Spanish by Sandra Kingery
Five poems by Carlos Pintado translated and introduced by Hilary Vaughn Dobel
Four poems by José Alfredo Escobar Martínez, translated by Wendy Call
Three poems by Liu Xia, translated from Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern
Three poems by Luis Chaves, translated and introduced by Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim
Five poems by Berta Dávila translated from Galician by Neil D. Anderson
A poem by Ronny Someck translated by Robert Manaster and Hana Inbar. Forthcoming soon in The Milk Underground
Three poems by Umberto Saba translated from Italian by Paula Bohince
Five poems by Meta Kušar translated from Slovenian by Ana Jelnikar & Barbara Siegel Carlson
A poem by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles translated from Filipino by Kristine Ong Muslim
Two poems by Zhu Zhu, translated from Chinese by Dong Li
Two poems by Juan Carlos Mestre translated by Patrick Marion Bradley
Two poems by Hugo Gola translated from Spanish by Hugo García Manríquez
Three sections of Peretz Markish’s The Forty-Year-Old Man, translated from Yiddish by Rose Waldman
Two poems by Ya Shi translated from Chinese by Nick Admussen
A poem by Bissan Abu Khaled translated from Arabic by Francesca Bell and Noor Nader Al Abed
“A Single Woman’s Room” by Yi Lei, translated from the Chinese by Changtai Bi and Tracy K. Smith
Three poems by Radek Fridrich translated from the Czech and with an introduction by Jonathan Bolton
Two poems from The Country of Planks / El País de Tablas by Raúl Zurita, translated by Daniel Borzutzky. Available now from Action Books
Three poems by Pilar Fraile Amador, translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis
Two poems by Ma Lan translated from Chinese by Charles A. Laughlin
Five poems by Amanda Aizpuriete translated from Latvian by Inara Cedrins
Five poems by Angélica Freitas, translated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan
A poem by Sarah Kernya translated and with an introduction by Virginia Konchan
Three poems by Macario Matus translated from Zapotec into Spanish by the author, with English translations and an introduction by Wendy Call
A poem by Pierre Chappuis, translated from French by Tim Keane and Myriam Moraz
Four poems by Dmitri Prigov translated from Russian by Matvei Yankelevich
Two poems by Melcion Mateu, translated from the Catalan by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, along with a musical composition by Alexis Cuadrado
Two poems by the 16th century French poet Pierre de Ronsard, translated by Diane Furtney
Five poems by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated by Yvette Siegert
A new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s “1940,” by J.D. Knight
Three poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated and with a note by Edith Grossman
An excerpt from Valerie Mejer’s “Countryless,” translated by Torin Jensen
Four poems by Behçet Necatigil, translated from Turkish by Chuck Sebian-Lander
Five poems by Christoph Meckel, translated by Roy Scheele
Two poems by Wang Xiaoni, translated from the Chinese by Eleanor Goodman
Two poems by Kim Kyung Ju, translated by Jake Levine and Jung Hi-Yeon
Three poems by Juan Antonio González-Iglesias translated by Curtis Bauer
Three poems by Perundevi, translated by N Kalyan Raman
Six poems by Francesca Pellegrino, translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi
Five poems from Luis García Montero’s Diary of an Accomplice, translated by Alice McAdams
Two poems by Lucie Thésée, translated by Robert Archambeau and Jean-Luc Garneau
Four poems by Ghalib translated by M. Shahid Alam
Two new translations by Micah McCrary from Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Roses
Four poems by the Peruvian poet José Watanabe, translated from the Spanish by Carlos Llaza
Excerpts from The World as Presence by Cuban writer Marcelo Morales Cintero, translated and with an introductory essay by Kristin Dykstra
A poem by the Martiniquais poet Suzanne Dracius, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
A selection of Pierre Peuchmaurd poems translated by E.C. Belli—four poems from The Nothing Bird and “Bull,” a Circumference exclusive.
Two poems by the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Holoborodko, translated by Svetlana Lavochkina
Two poems by the Swedish poet Håkan Sandell, translated by Bill Coyle
Five poems by Arseny Tarkovsky with translations and an introduction by Philip Metres & Dimitri Psurtsev
Seven poems by Edoardo Sanguineti, with translations and an introduction by Will Schutt
Four poems from the Chilean poet Enrique Winter, translated by Mary Ellen Stitt
Five poems from Izet Sarajlić’s 1993 collection Sarajevska Ratna Zbirka (Sarajevo War Journal), translated by Sara Nović
news, interviews, & criticism
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New York’s Russian Bookstore #21, located on the second floor of an unassuming office building, at the end of a flight of drab stairs, was the venue for a Russian-language reading and talk by poet, editor, critic, and translator Dmitry Kuzmin on April 18, 2012…
On Hans Favery’s Chrysanthemums, Rowers, tr. by Francis R. Jones and Lela Favery
A celebration of poet Nicanor Parra's centennial
sights and sounds
Welcome to the second episode of Circumference Radio.
In this episode, Montana Ray speaks with Mónica de la Torre about her new book Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020).
In this episode, Montana Ray interviews historian, theorist, and translator Lawrence Venuti
n this episode Montana Ray interviews Jennifer Hayashida, poet-translator and Director of Asian American Studies at Hunter College.
In this interview Montana Ray talks with poet, translator, and scholar Jennifer Scappettone about her translations and research on the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli.
In this episode, Montana Ray speaks with poet-translator-scholar Odi Gonzales about growing up in Peru with two mother tongues.
In this episode Montana Ray speaks with Yusef Komunyakaa, Goutam Datta, and Subodh Sarkar about exchanges between US and Bengali poets
In this series Montana Ray talks with translators about their process and poetics. Ray will explore and challenge our understanding of the craft and its role in contemporary literature.
In this series Montana Ray talks with translators about their process and poetics. Ray will explore and challenge our understanding of the craft and its role in contemporary literature.
In this series Montana Ray talks with translators about their process and poetics. Ray will explore and challenge our understanding of the craft and its role in contemporary literature.