The Editions
Three Years of Extraordinary Translations
The inaugural volume. Features poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages — including Burmese, Kurdish, Tigrinya, and Wayuu — brought into English by thirty-eight translators. Selected from over 500 nominations spanning more than eighty countries and nearly sixty languages.
Dedicated to the memory of Edith Grossman
Guest-edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garza. Features poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages. Contemporary and historical works stand side by side — poems, short stories, essays, and hybrid works drawn from U.S. journals spanning dozens of countries.
Read Rivera Garza's Introduction at Words Without Borders ↗
Dedicated to Refaat Alareer & Jerome Rothenberg
Guest-edited by National Book Award winner and U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Compiled from 455+ submissions in 62 original languages, featuring 32 works in 21 languages — from French to Xitsonga, Farsi to Korean, Ukrainian to Guaraní — each accompanied by a translator's note..
Dedicated to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o