Jacquelyn Pope’s first collection of poems, Watermark, was published by Marsh Hawk Press; Hungerpots, her translation of the Dutch poet Hester Knibbe, was published by Eyewear. She is the recipient of a 2015 NEA Translation Fellowship and a 2012 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. She recently translated four poems by Elisabeth Eybers and three by Hendrik Marsman for WLT.
Eybers’s poem “Taalles” (Language Lesson) on the wall of the Anne Frank School in Leiden / Source: Wikimedia
Whether by personal predilection or because of powers beyond their control, poets are some…
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