Daniel Simon

Daniel Simon is a poet, translator, and the editor in chief of World Literature Today. His newest book project, Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017, which he compiled and edited, was published in April 2017.

Three Poems from Poland

May 15, 2017 | Joanna Pollakówna

Giovanni Bellini, Pietà (1505), oil on wood, 65 x 90 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice For more on the poetry of Pollakówna, read “A Terrible Ecstasy,” a companion essay by Alice-Cathe...
Four Poems by a Polish Holocaust Survivor

September 13, 2016 | Zofia Romanowicz

Quinn Dombrowski, “Velvet Flower,” 2008 For more, read “The Renaissance of Zofia Romanowicz,” an essay by Alice-Catherine Carls. The Circle Lion fangs, bear claws,...
The Canvas of Encounter. Tàpies

By Andrés Sánchez Robayna

November 2015
Andrés Sánchez Robayna

Antoni Tàpies, Porta metàl·lica i violí, 1956, 200 x 150 x 13 cm. Back then I learned that the painter’sgesture contains both the movement of the planetand the blade of grass on the mountain...
Turning Thirty

By Abdellah Taïa

September 2013
Abdellah Taïa

On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, the narrator recounts three near-death experiences and his journey from Morocco to France. With nods toward Dostoevsky and Genet (echoing the Lazarus scene be...
Two Poems by Jacques Roubaud

By Jacques Roubaud

July 2013
Jacques Roubaud

Translator’s note: Roubaud wrote the first poem, “À cinq heures du soir” (itself a nod to Lorca’s famous “La cogida y la muerte”), about Warren Motte’s dog Lucy, who shared with her owner a g...