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D. Nurkse and
Stephen Kessler
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D. Nurkse is the author of nine collections of poetry,
most recently The Border Kingdom, Burnt Island, and The Fall (Alfred Knopf, New York, 2008, 2006, and 2004).
His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Poetry Review,
Kenyon Review, The Times Literary Supplement (London), Ploughshares, The Paris Review, and the
Best American Poetry series. He has received the Whiting Writers Award, two NEA fellowships,
two NYFA fellowships, two awards from Poetry (Chicago), and a Tanne Foundation grant.
Nurkse has written extensively and worked professionally in the field of human rights.
He taught writing for many years at Rikers Island Correctional Facility and has taught
advanced workshops at The Writer's Voice, The New School, and the Brooklyn College
MFA Program. He now lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Read a poem by D. Nurkse on the British blog Eyewear. Read two poems by D. Nurkse on Poetry Daily. Read about the February 7 poetry workshop with D. Nurkse offered by Poetry Santa Cruz. Learn more at Stephen Kessler’s website www.StephenKessler.com.
Watch an online video interview of Stephen Kessler about translation
on YouTube.
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Stephen Kessler is a poet, translator,
essayist, editor and novelist whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications across the United States
since the late 1960s. He is the author of eight books and chapbooks of original poetry and 13 books of
literary translation, most recently Burning Daylight (poems, 2007, Littoral Press), Moving Targets:
On Poets, Poetry & Translation (essays, 2008, El Leon Literary Arts), and Les Ziaux/Eyeseas by
Raymond Queneau (translation, with Daniela Hurezanu, Black Widow Press). He is the former editor
of Alcatraz, an international journal, and The Sun, a Santa Cruz weekly, among other magazines and
newspapers. He currently edits the quarterly literary newspaper The Redwood Coast Review and is
the author of the yet-to-be-published novel The Mental Traveler.
