Europe

Selima Hill (she/her) grew up in a family of painters on farms in England and Wales. She has lived in Dorset for the past 40 years. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1986 and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow...

Aristotle (Greek Aristoteles) was born around 384 BCE in Stagira, Greece. At age 17, he went to study in Athens under Plato (428–328 BC) for 20 years, who had been taught by Socrates.Aristotle wrote an estimated...

Gertrud Kolmar, born Gertrud Chodziesner in Berlin in December 1894, was a German Jewish poet and writer. Her surviving works include 450 poems, three plays, and two short stories. Kolmar drew inspiration ...

Farah Chamma (she/her) is a Palestinian poet and performer. As a performer, Chamma has participated in many events and festivals, including Palestine en Campagne (France), Wilde Möhre (Germany), Bradford Literature...

Elizabeth Sarah Coles (she/her) is the author of Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist (Oxford University Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Her other honors include a T.R. Henn...

Jolanda Insana was born in 1937 in Messina, Italy. Insana was the author of several volumes of poetry, beginning with Sciarra amara (approximately translated “Bitter Harvest”) published in 1977. In addition...

Luftwerk Studio was founded by Chicago-based artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. A combination of the German words luft (meaning “air”) and werk (meaning “work” or “artwork”), the name emphasizes both...

Zuzanna Ginczanka was a Polish-Jewish poet of the interwar period. She was born Sara Gincburg in 1917 in Kiev, which was then part of Russia. She grew up speaking primarily Russian and opted to live in Poland...

Jacint Verdaguer’s remarkable literary achievement lies not only in his masterful epics of Spain and Catalonia but also in his prolific shorter narrative and lyric poetry that engaged the popular imagination...

Robert McDowell is a proponent of narrative and formal resurgence in American poetry as well as poetry as spiritual practice. McDowell’s poems, narratives, and lyrics focus on 20th-century American life. His...

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. The recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial...

Lyudmyla Diadchenko was born on August 2, 1988, in the village of Shevchenkove, Ukraine. Diadchenko has published multiple poetry collections in Ukrainian, including Fee For Access (Green Dog, 2011), A Hen...

Richard Rolle, also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, was born in Yorkshire in 1300 to a poor farming family. He was an English hermit, a writer, and a mystic and was a part of the golden age...

The “Gawain Poet” is the name used for the unknown author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The entirety of the Gawain Poet's known work exists in a single manuscript written in Middle English that dates...

Stesichorus (632–556) was one of the nine canonical lyric poets of Greek antiquity, most well-known for his choral lyric verse on epic themes. Stesichorus, which in Greek means “instructor of choruses,” was...

Kim Moore was born in Leicester, England. Her first chapbook, If We Could Speak Like Wolves, was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition, and went on to be shortlisted for the Michael...

Marissa Davis (she/her) is a poet and translator from Paducah, Kentucky. Davis is the winner of a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, and in 2023, she received an Emerging Translator ...

Swiss writer Robert Walser was born in 1878. He wrote many novels and essays, and over a thousand short stories in his native German language. He also worked several different kinds of jobs, including bank...