Heat, Sob, Lily (2025), She-Giant in the Land of Here-We-Go-Again (2020, Just Now Alive (2014), I walk around gathering... (2020) trans. Marie Lundquist
We're excited to spotlight women in translation with these poems by Hanna Riisager translated from the Swedish by Kristina Andersson Bicher. Happy #TranslationMonth and happy reading! —Dana Serea, Translation Editor nationaltranslationmonth.sub…
Next to where their ship went down
they pitched their linen tents.
You, mountain-climbing,
mountain-climbing,
wearing your dead father's flight jacket—
My scalp is alive,
love touched it. My eyes are open water. Yours too.
- Jean Valentine in @Poetry_Daily today
We are excited to be featured in this month’s edition of Writer’s Chronicle (@awpwriter). Check out the article from Kristina Andersson Bicher (@kanderbee): “Poetry in America at the Forefront of Tech-Driven Learning.” bit.ly/3g9VkZs
Bravo, two-time Under the Volcano alumna @kanderbee (aka Kristina Andersson)! Spectacular interview on poetry, translation and the dance between them in your work.