Translation Po-int: With Clara Burghelea

Sevda Aykuz's poem captures tender vulnerability in a striking, fleeting moment.

Laura Dan's poems seduce the reader with their simple, visual touch and their dainty details.

Astrid Cabral’s poems are visually musical and the rich vein of her native language, Portuguese, is beautifully captured in Alexis Levitin’s translation.

John Casquarelli’s poems exult in vividness and engage the body of the reader in unexpected ways.

Thorvald Berthelsen’s translations capture the musical streak of the original language while vividly rendering intriguing visual associations.

Karin Molde’s poems have a visual narrative streak, guiding the reader’s gaze to the little, yet potent, details that make their stories.

Anabelle Aguilar Brealey’s poems are soft and vivid in the way they pour into the reader’s eyes and mouth and Diana Manole’s translation captures their tender core.

Viviana Fiorentino’s poems bravely tackle the conventions of the mother-daughter relationship in simple yet raw language.

Adrian Suciu’s poems are profusely rich in imagery and flesh; whether addressing mundane interaction or the divine figure, the language remains simple, yet deep in meaning.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s poems retain the flavor of romantic love, and Glenn Hubbard’s translation daintily captures the splendours of nature and the beauty of the beloved in the original poetry.

A potent, bilingual artist, Nina Kossman endows her poems with a vividness of language that equally seduces and puzzles.

Chiara Salomoni’s poems in translation beautifully capture the rich imagery, as well as the tone and nuances of the original poems.

Myth and the senses blend in these visual poems by Veroniki Dalakoura in the apt and tender translation of John Taylor.

The body and its declaration of strength are telegraphed to the reader in Landa Wo’s translation of Dora Manuel Culabo’s poems.

Lorraine Caputo's poems are visually rich, capturing vivid images of both land and people in a simple, yet enchanting manner.

Okeke Onyedika’s works have appeared/forthcoming in Eighteen seventy poetry, Brittle Paper, Deluge Journal, Rockvale, Praxis, African Writers, Tuck Magazine. & elsewhere.

Goodness Olanrewaju Ayoola’s poetry appeared in Glass, Pangolin Review, Mojave Heart, Ethel Zine and elsewhere.

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Andreea Iulia Scridon's poetry is driven by a fascination with the world in which the poet exists.

Maram Al-Masri, born in Lattakia, Syria, moved to France after completing English Literature studies at Damascus University. She received the Prix d’Automne de Poésie (Société des Gens De Lettres), Adonis Prize, and the Dante Alighieri Prize. Her books include Cerise rouge sur un carrelage blanc, Elle va nue la liberté, and Le Rapt.

Mohammad Reza studied Graphics at the College of Arts, Tehran University, and has since been working as a graphic artist, painter, and illustrator. He has participated in biennales, and group and solo exhibitions. Mohammad wrote and illustrated three stories for children that have remained unpublished due to censorship in Iran.

Marko Pogačar is one of Croatia's leading contemporary poets. Author of five poetry collections, five books of essays, and a short story collection, Pogačar also edited Young Croatian Lyric anthology (2014). His writing has been translated into more than 30 languages.

Anna Szabó T. (b. 1972 in Kolozsvár, Romania) poet, translator, author of 22 books of original poetry, 2 books of prose. She translated 76 childern books from English including Beatrix Potter and Dr. Seuss. She is the winner of numerous literary prizes including the prestigious József Attila prize.

Traian T. Coșovei (1954 – 2014) was a Romanian poet of the ‘80s Generation. He was a founding member of the ‘Cenaclul de Luni’ literary circle, a group that would eventually set the tone for much of postmodern Romanian poetry. He was the recipient of a series of prizes, including the Prize of the Romanian Academy and the International Nichita Stănescu Prize. Coșovei published over twenty books of poetry, literary criticism, and prose.

Faye Ng Yu Ci’s poems have appeared in Raven Chronicles, Bookends Review, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.

Fizza Abbas is a Freelance Content Writer based in Karachi, Pakistan.

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Gale Acuff is the author of three books of poetry. He has taught university
English in the US, China, and Palestine

Glenn Hubbard lives in Madrid, where he teaches English and writes poetry.

Lauren Camp’s most recent collection is ‘Took House’ (Tupelo Press, 2020). 

Poet Rafael Mendes is a member of NIC writers group at The Irish Writers Centre.

Tonno Bisaccio's work can be found in Apeiron, Gravel, Alimentum and others.

Dr. Sanjib Kumar Baishya’s first collection ‘Truths in the Market’ was published in 2019 with Notion Press.

Emerging poet,Nnadi Samuel is a graduate of English & literature from the University of Benin

e.r. de siqueira is a queer Latino poet whose work has appeared in the anthology My scwhules Auge - My Gay Eye - Berlin edition, Magma, Hawai'i Review, and others.

Cindy Rinne is the author of several books, including 'Knife Me Split Memories' (Cholla Needles Press), 'Letters Under Rock with Bory Thach', (Elyssar Press), Mapless with Nikia Chaney (Cholla Needles Press),

Susannah Violette has been placed or commended in The Plough Prize, Westival International Poetry Prize and the Frogmore poetry prize.

Clara Burghelea became involved with an international cadre of poets and translators to form a community of creatives during a time of lockdown.