Karl Kirchwey

Karl Kirchwey has translated poetry from French, Italian, German and Spanish. His translation of Paul Verlaine’s first book, the Poemes saturniens, appeared as Poems Under Saturn (Princeton University Press, 2011). He has been working on a volume of Selected Poems in English by Italian poet Giovanni Giudici (1924-2011), and has also translated poems by Giorgio Vigolo (1894-1983). His interests in translation include adaptations by contemporary English-language poets of ancient Greek and Roman drama. He has published seven books of poetry, including most recently Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems (Northwestern University Press, 2017), and edited the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets anthology Poems of Rome (2018). He is Professor of English and Creative Writing, and taught the Translation Seminar in 2016. He is currently serving as Associate Dean of Faculty for the Humanities in BU’s College of Arts and Sciences