by Calypso | Apr 10, 2016 | Submission
FAVORITE POEM PROJECT – HOUSTON: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HOUSTONIANS’ BEST-LOVED POEMS Is there a special poem in your life that you would like to share with others? Many of us have found a particular poem to be deeply meaningful at key moments in our lives—and we return to...
by Calypso | Dec 14, 2015 | Calypso Close-Ups, Poetry
Having our human dignity “shattered through fear” is not a new phenomenon as Sarah Jameel writes in her open love letter on Medium. Throughout the world every moment of every day, people are murdered, terrorized, abandoned, diseased, starving. Throughout the world...
by Calypso | Nov 9, 2015 | Calypso Close-Ups, Interview
Committed to providing a voice to those who are oppressed, Julia Sherwood often teams with husband Peter Sherwood to translate literary fiction as well as film scripts, essays, journalism and academic texts from various Eastern European languages. She also works for...
by Calypso | Oct 26, 2015 | Calypso Close-Ups, Interview
A native of Kraków, Poland, Piotr Florczyk came to the U.S. when he was sixteen. He is a prolific writer and translator with numerous books and smaller pieces in various publications like The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Slate. A founding editor of...
by Calypso | Oct 12, 2015 | Calypso Close-Ups, Interview, Poetry, Translation
Martin Woodside is involved with the mysterious inner workings of Calypso Editions. An accomplished poet in his own right, Martin lived in Romania for a year and since then has been committed to exposing readers to the gritty and powerful writers of that country. He...
by Calypso | Sep 4, 2015 | Calypso Close-Ups, Interview, Poetry
Elizabeth Myhr’s poetry evokes sense of a space of rare and desolate beauty. With each line in the vanishings, she delineates a geography that is as subtle as the subconscious and just as vast. We caught up with Elizabeth and asked her to give us just the facts. WHO...
by Calypso | Aug 29, 2015 | Fiction, News, Poetry, Reading
CALYPSO EDITIONS SEEKS SUBMISSIONS Calypso Editions, a cooperative press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective, publishes four books each year. In order to maintain our successful track record of...
by Calypso | Aug 29, 2015 | Fiction, Interview, Translation
A man who has as many tricks up his sleeve as the author he most recently translated, Tadzio Koelb has successfully sieved André Gide’s Paludes (1895) from the French original into his eloquently transported English translation, Morasses. We caught up with the...
by Calypso | Aug 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Calypso Editions is pleased to announce that we will be accepting English-language submissions during an open reading period in the month of September. More details are forthcoming; look out for our call for submissions shortly. We...
by Calypso | Aug 11, 2015 | Calypso Close-Ups, Fiction, Interview
A recipient of many awards, including an NEA, and author of seven award-winning novels, Margaret McMullan commands a powerful presence in the world of literature. Two of her works were published earlier this year—Every Father’s Daughter, a collection of essays...