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Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden, The Pajamaist, and Come On All You Ghosts, forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. He has received a William Carlos… Read More
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Christina Davis is the author of Forth A Raven (Alice James Books, 2006) and Raven's Brew (Firefly, 2008). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Jubilat, The May Anthologies… Read More
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Two Epigrams by Martial, translated by William Matthews
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Matthew Zapruder (born 1967 in Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award… Read More
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Epigram “V, x” by Martial, translated by William Matthews
Why is it modern poets are ignored and only dead ones get adored? That’s how envy works, Regulus, the dead make the safest rivals. So we mourn Pompey’s colonnade and its nostalgic,… Read More
“Magnificent Frigatebird” by Ernest Hilbert
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Originally from Arkansas, John Schellhase is currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. In 2007, he won the Walton Fellowship in Translation for his work with ancient Greek poetry.… Read More
“Cautionary Tale; or, What Comes Up Must Come Down” by Ernest Hilbert
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