by Calypso | May 14, 2021 | Calypso Close-Ups, Interview, News
Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet, writer, and translator who earned his MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. While earning his degree, Leong began a project to translate poems found etched into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station. These...
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, 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...
