Poetry: Sharon Dolin

from A Manual for Living Desire Demands Its Own Attachment                                     —Epictetus

David Koehn: “Reclaiming Catullus”

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.” Jorge Luis Borges, On Henley’s translation of Beckford’s Vathek, 1943 The ‘availability’ of Catullus is both a challenge and an opportunity. My original thesis in translating Catullus was that Catullus, the pleasure of…

Lisa Wells interviews Emilia Phillips

Emilia Phillips is the author of Signaletics (University of Akron Press, 2013) and two chapbooks including Bestiary of Gall (Sundress Publications, 2013). Her poetry appears in Agni, Beloit Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review,…

Donald Revell: Questions of Translation

In coming issues, OmniVerse will turn its eye toward translation, with works on and of the community of poetry across languages. We introduce these issues with this adaptation of a talk given by Donald Revell on “questions of translation.”