This one's gonna be a little different, with both Patty and Steven reading translations and departures. Patty will be bringing Tranströmer into English, and Steven will be jumping off of Rilke into a region unknown. Won't you join us? (You really should.)

Patty Crane is author of Bell I Wake To (Zone 3 Press First Book Award, 2019) and Something Flown (Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2018), and translator of THE BLUE HOUSE: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer (Copper Canyon Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Bright Scythe (Sarabande Books, 2015), her selected translations of the Swedish Nobel laureate. Her poetry has appeared most recently in 32 Poems, Poetry Daily, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Vox. Her translations have recently appeared in American Poets, Poetry, Poetry East, and Five Points. Her work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell and Hedgebrook. A third generation Cape Cod native, she divides her time between the hilltowns of western Massachusetts and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. 

Steven Cramer’s seventh poetry collection is Departures from Rilke (Arrowsmith Press, 2023). His previous volume. Listen, (MadHat Press, 2020), was named a “must-read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Previous books include Clangings (Sarabande Books, 2012) and Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande, 2004), winner of the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and named a 2005 Massachusetts Honor Book. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and other journals. The recipient of two grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he founded and now teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.

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