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Bio
Greg Simon was born in Minnesota, but has lived most of his life in the Pacific Northwest. He was educated in Seattle, Iowa City, and Palo Alto, and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Stanford University. He is the co-translator, with Steven F. White and Christopher Maurer, of Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1988, and recently reissued in a fully revised edition in 2014. Other Simon/White collaborations include books of poetry by Gaston Baquero (Cuba), Pablo Antonio Cuadra (Nicaragua), and Rubén Dario (Nicaragua).
Greg has been a contributing and translation editor for Porch, White Pine Press, The Salt River Review, and Trask House Books. He has published poems, translations, essays and reviews in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Northwest Review. Current work can be found in Hinchas de Poesía, a digital codex of contemporary Pan-American writing. He lives and works in an old wooden house above the west bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.
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See a full 2010 interview with
Greg here.
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Contributing Author
Widow of the moon -
who could forget her?
She dreamed the earth
turned into crystal.
Furious and pale,
she hoped to sing the sea
to sleep, comb her hair
with cries of coral.
Her hair like spun glass -
who could forget it?
At her breast, the rims
of a hundred wells.
Greg Simon, Translation Editor
Soul Barnacles is both literary history and love story, chronicling the way a surviving partner carries forward the life and work of her mate while pursuing her own life and literary endeavors. These essays, letters, and interviews, written after Carver's untimely death, explore the inextricable bonds that linked their lives and their writing.
This forum for discussing Cindy Williams Gutiérrez’s debut poetry collection will feature Fulbright scholar Ivonne Saed, Spanish and Linguistics professor Dr. Juan Antonio Trujillo, and special guest renowned translator of Spanish and Latin American poetry, Greg Simon.
Greg Simon, in conversation
LITERARY ARTS
Introduction by Greg
Additional Publications:
The Iowa Review Issue 5 No.2 (The Day He Became Blind & This is the Feeling the Breaks), Ploughshares Winter 1995-96 (The Interpreters of Dreams & Bread Lines), Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Ghazal of Perfume), Sonora Review 1 (We Live For Cries: On Norman Dubie - Criticism), Telescope Summer 1982 (Seventy-Seven Words Concerning My Recent Scientific Inquiries & Intimate Wealth: A Review of The Red House, by Gregory Orr)
Upcoming Projects
LATEST RELEASE
Available now
Follow Her
From Cave Moon Press
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See a preview here.
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Greg says, "in January 2012, I shivered in a turn-of-the-century house on the Long Beach peninsula of Washington State; while I was busy offering up sacrificial wood fires and burnt joints of meat, and wine, during the magical hours, the possibility of this writing first occurred to me. The afternoon or evening or early, early morning when she offered me the glimmer that subsequently exploded into this sequence of Rilkean sonnets, linked to each other by her glory, her mythology, and my unconditional homage to Eurydice."
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Orpheus And Eurydice is a painting by Niccolo dell Abbate, 1552-1571