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    • May 13, 2020

    Willis Barnstone Translation Prize

    I am co-winner of the 2019 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. My winning translation was of a German poem/song by Leo Strauss called...
    • Sep 4, 2019

    Vallejo In Better Than Starbucks

    My translation of "The Black Heralds" by César Vallejo appears in the September/October 2019 issue of Better Than Starbucks.
    Three Things (poem by Baltasar de Alcázar)   — TWO Translations!
    • Sep 15, 2017

    Three Things (poem by Baltasar de Alcázar) — TWO Translations!

    Bal­tasar de Alcázar (1530−1606) is one of the few poets of his day who con­sis­tently allowed him­self to be funny. He is sometimes...
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