Portrait of Karl Kirchwey

Karl Kirchwey

Karl Kirchwey is the author of seven books of poems, including Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems (Northwestern University Press, 2017), Mount Lebanon (Marian Wood/Putnam, 2011), and The Happiness of This World (Putnam, 2007). His translation of Paul Verlaine’s first book of poems is Poems Under Saturn (Princeton University Press, 2011). He has also edited an anthology of poems about Rome for the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series and has recently translated work by Italian poets Giorgio Vigolo (1894—983) and Giovanni Giudici (1924—2011). He is professor of English and creative writing at Boston University. (updated 10/2022)

AGNI has published the following work:

Self-Portrait as Dumbo the Elephant

Essay by Karl Kirchwey

A Wood Thrush

Poetry by Karl Kirchwey

Barnegat Light

Poetry by Karl Kirchwey

AGNI has published the following translation:

The Nereids

Poetry by Théophile Gautier Translated from the French by Karl Kirchwey
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