In 2016 I translated Tove Ditlevsen’s Gift into English as Dependency. Through a series of coincidences, in 2018 I was able to submit it for consideration to Penguin Classics, who […]
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In December, 2021, The Los Angeles Review accepted for publication four poems by Tove Ditlevsen that I co-translated with my colleague Cynthia Graae. Fourteen other poems have been accepted for
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Michael recently gave a talk about Tove Ditlevsen, and The Copenhagen Trilogy at UMass Amherst. He spoke about Ditlevsen’s life and how he first came upon her work. He also
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October 9, 2021, my book launch for my new poetry collections, Small Sovereign and Slow Phoenix, filled the Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA) with jazz music and a poetry
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I’m thrilled to announce that a short story by Tove Ditlevsen, titled “The Umbrella,” was published in this week’s edition of The New Yorker (Online and print, October 25, 2021).
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Thank you to everyone who showed up to listen in and support ‘The Poetry Ritual,’ a Zoom celebration of three years of The Poetry Critique Meet-Up, which has been running
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I am currently working on a new translation project of a work by Tove Ditlevsen, author of The Copenhagen Trilogy. Many thanks to World Literature Today for publishing an excerpt from
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The Poetry Critique Meet-Up has been running twice per month since June of 2018. It’s hosted by the Northampton Center for the Arts with the support of Straw Dog Writers
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In the summer of 2016, I was passing through Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen with my wife, on our way home after a visit with family. We stopped to browse the
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“Her language is very clipped and accessible. It is not the voice of someone who is suffering. It is the voice of someone who has her wits about her and
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