Mar 11, 2024 | Craft, Interviews, Stories & Poetry
This is Part 2 of my conversation with Kasper Salonen whose poetic and translation influences include Arto Melleri, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Zach de la Rocha, Eminem, Federico García Lorca, Aaro Hellaakoski, Ted Hughes, Emily Dickinson, E.E. Cummings, Allen...
Feb 12, 2024 | Craft, Interviews
This season, I had the privilege and pleasure to be a reader for the upcoming CLMP’s Firecracker Awards again. I read many translated works from emerging and celebrated writers alike. As a bilingual reader (German & English) I appreciate the hard work that goes...
Sep 3, 2023 | Book Reviews, Craft
As we work through our drafts, the question of who’s the narrator and what point of view (POV) should I choose arises. Frederik Reiken suggests in his essay, The Author-Narrator-Merge, Why Many First-Time Novelists Wind up with Flat, Uninteresting Protagonists, that...
