What instantly sets Zoland Poetry apart from other anthologies is that all the work is previously unpublished and the translations are presented as an integral part of the contemporary poetry scene, rather than as something exotic slipped between the pages of a book filled primarily with English-language poets. Equal footing is given to voices from Italy, Iran, Argentina, Poland, and across the United States.

Contributors to the second annual include poems by Bei Dao, Connie Deanovich, Merrill Gilfillan, Timothy Liu, Deborah Meadows, Anne Porter, Elizabeth Robinson and Tony Towle, alongside translations by Forrest Gander, Stephanie Sandler, Lawrence Venuti and Eliot Weinberger. Featured authors in No. 2 are Lee Harwood interviewed by William Corbett, Steve Bradbury on Taiwanese poet Hsia Yü and a generous selection of work from the Polish poet MLB.

The inaugural book in 2007 featured work by Lidija Dimkovska, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Hugo Mujica, Ange Mlinko, Rachel Loden, Charles North, Barbara Jane Reyes, Raymond Queneau, Patricia Smith, and Dean Young, with translations by noted poets and translators Fanny Howe, Jennifer Scappettone, Adam Sorkin, and Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.


 

Thanks to all who visited the Zoland table at the AWP conference in NYC. Zoland No. 2 is now on the street. Ask your bookstore (nicely) if you don't see it shelved.

Visit the Steerforth Press site for Zoland Poetry ordering information and related titles.

This Sat., May 3rd, 4pm at the NYU Creative Writing Center (58 W. 10th St., NYC)
Zoland is co-sponsoring "The Art of Translation" during the PEN World Voices Festival, with Zoland translators Forrest Gander, Fanny Howe, Stephanie Sandler and Genya Turovskaya. Eliot Weinberger will introduce the event.

The platforming blog is back with Zoland updates and notes on translation.

Zoland authors Charles North and Elizabeth Robinson are the 2008 recipients of artist grants in the poetry category from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Sarah Fox and Fany Howe read at P.A's in Somerville, MA. Watch Now!