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Author: Bill Lavender

Bill Lavender founded Lavender Ink, a small press devoted mainly to poetry, in 1995, and he founded Diálogos, an imprint devoted to cross-cultural literatures (mostly in translation) in 2011. He continues to operate the press from his home in New Orleans. You can read an interview with Bill in Jacket2 about the press here: https://jacket2.org/commentary/lavender-ink-interview Bill is also the co-founder of the New Orleans Poetry Festival (nolapoetry.com).

Crossing by Anna Seghers reviewed in Kirkus

Advance reviews for the Douglas Irving translation of the great Anna Seghers’s Crossing: A Love Story, are beginning to appear, first of all at Kirkus, who is also featuring the book in their Fall Preview.

Open Letter to Forrest Gander and Copper Canyon Press

I have recently been having a conversation on Facebook with one of my favorite poets, Forrest Gander, concerning the upcoming release of The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda, which he has translated into English. Specifically, we were talking about Copper Canyon’s kickstarter campaign to raise money for the project. My reaction to this campaign has […]