—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. John Rosenwald, a poet and activist, has published a book of translations of ...

The book entitled “Hafez Love Poems in the Mirror of German Poetry” (“Hafis’ Liebeslyrik im Spiegel der Deutschen Dichtung”) has been released by Konigshausen & Neumann in Wurzburg. “Hafez is the most ...

Verse translators come in three varieties: Those who get almost nothing right; those (the majority) who get some things right; and those rare birds who get everything, or at least almost everything, ...

German poet Durs Grünbein and British translator Karen Leeder have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize for the collection Psyche Running. The $130,000 prize is the world's largest prize for a single ...

Listen in as Goethe-Institut Chicago and Poetry Foundation for an evening of music and poetry performed by Tzveta Sofronieva, Sam Burckhardt, and Chantal Wright. Sam Burckhardt was born in Switzerland ...

Forty-one poems from his collections “Acceptance”, “Hollows”, “Lines Change Places in the Dark”, “The Faded Colors of the World” and “The Middle East Trilogy: War, Love, Loneliness” have been selected ...

Translating poetry without losing its essence is a tough job. It is tougher when the translation is from a European language into a Dravidian tongue, one with an entirely different set of linguistic ...