by Calypso | Jul 19, 2013 | Calypso Close-Ups, Uncategorized
Calypso Edition’s own Martin Woodside reviews MARGENTO’s Nomadosofia/Nomadosophy, a “sprawling book that represents the possibilities of a new global poetics.” Please visit Asymptote to read the review and other great international...
by Calypso | Jun 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Dear Friends, Poet Efraín Bartolomé, a licensed psychotherapist from Mexico City, will read from and sign his published books of poetry and prose, including Jaguar Eye and Ocosingo War Diary: Voices from Chiapas. Event will be held in the Centro Cultural, on the...
by Calypso | May 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Do you have an extra $1000.00 to spend? If so, then buy yourself an airline ticket and head over to Kraków, Poland, where the third edition of the Czesław Miłosz Festival begins next week. The list of participants is deep and impressive–it includes Philip...
by Calypso | Apr 28, 2013 | Calypso Close-Ups, Uncategorized
Poet, translator, and co-founder of Calypso Editions, Piotr Florczyk took part in a radio interview during which he and another guest, poet Jenny Minniti-Shippey, discussed poetry, translation, and the publishing scene. The interview aired as part of the San...
by Calypso | Apr 28, 2013 | Calypso Close-Ups, Uncategorized
The May 2013 issue of World Literature Today, a brilliant journal based at the University of Oklahoma, includes a review of Froth: Poems by Jarosław Mikołajewski. The author of the review, poet and critic Rachel Gellman, calls Froth “a mixture of short, striking...
by Calypso | Feb 8, 2012 | Calypso Close-Ups, Uncategorized
“The electricity and playfulness of these poets is not lost in translation and is perhaps enhanced by Woodside and his coterie of fellow translators. Even for readers unfamiliar with the Romanian language, the originals and translations (featured en face) make...
