by XO | Sep 30, 2017 | Amira Rammah, Author, The Lab, Writing Room
Amira Rammah Amira Rammah (poet, translator) received a BA in English Language and Literature, and pursued an MA in Cross Cultural Studies both from Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis (University of Carthage). In 2014, she was selected to participate in the...
by XO | Sep 21, 2017 | Amira Rammah, Author, International Poets, Poetry Shelf
Amira Rammah Amira Rammah (poet, translator) received a BA in English Language and Literature, and pursued an MA in Cross Cultural Studies both from Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis (University of Carthage). In 2014, she was selected to...
by XO | Sep 21, 2017 | Author, International Poets, Johannes Goransson, Poetry Shelf
Johannes Göransson Johannes Göransson is the author of six books, including most recently The Sugar Book (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2015), and has translated a number of Swedish poets, including Aase Berg, Henry Parland, Johan Jönson, Ann Jäderlund...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Gene Tanta, International Guests, Interviews
Gene Tanta Gene Tanta (Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA, UW-Milwaukee PhD) is a poet, teacher, and translator of contemporary Romanian poetry. Dr. Tanta reads and writes about twentieth-century American poetry, first-generation American poets, and the European Avant-garde....
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Henry Finch, International Poets, Poetry Shelf
Henry Finch Henry Finch’s poetry appears in The North American Review, The Sugar House Review, The Massachusetts Review, jubilat, The Seattle Review, Prelude, Forklift Ohio, Transom, The Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Nikola Madzirov, Polar(eyezed), Wanderer
Nikola Madzirov Nikola Madzirov (poet, essayist and translator) was born into a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica, Macedonia. His poetry has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the US, Europe and Asia....
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Gene Tanta, The Lab, Writing Room
Gene Tanta Gene Tanta (Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA, UW-Milwaukee PhD) is a poet, teacher, and translator of contemporary Romanian poetry. Dr. Tanta reads and writes about twentieth-century American poetry, first-generation American poets, and the European Avant-garde....
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Henry Finch, Where to Publish
Henry Finch Henry Finch’s poetry appears in The North American Review, The Sugar House Review, The Massachusetts Review, jubilat, The Seattle Review, Prelude, Forklift Ohio, Transom, The Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Challenging Readings, Hard to Grasp, Kelsi Vanada
Kelsi Vanada Kelsi Vanada is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She teaches literature and creative writing for the University of Iowa, and translates from Spanish. Her poems and translations have appeared most recently in Berfrois and Prelude. She...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Challenging Readings, Hard to Grasp, Thomas Cousineau
Thomas Cousineau Thomas Cousineau, Professor of English (Emeritus) at Washington College in Maryland, was a Fulbright Scholar in American Studies at the University of Bucharest during the Fall 2014 term. His books include After the Final No: Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy,...