Robert Bly is a poet, translator, essayist, editor, and the author of over twenty major volumes of poetic work, including The Light Around The Body, which won the National Book Award. He is also the founder of a literary magazine, which has been called, successively, The Fifties, The Sixties, The Seventies, and The Eighties. His translations from the Spanish (Neruda, Vallejo, Hernandez and Otero), from the Swedish (Martinson, Ekelof Transtromer), from the German (Rilke and Holderlin), and his versions of Kabir and the Sufi mystics almost singlehandedly brought an international awareness of poetry to this country in the last half century. His book, Iron John: A Book About Men is an international bestseller and has been translated into many languages. His most recent books are: Morning Poems (HarperCollins,1997), Eating The Honey Of Words: Selected Poems (Harper Flamingo, 1999), and a new translation of Ghalib called The Lightning Should Have Fallen On Ghalib (with Sunil Dutta, Ecco Press).
Patricia Smith Eugenio Montale Gaylord Brewer Sally Buckner Gearóid Mac Lochlainn Bill Knott Ron Rash Luke Hankins J. W. Bonner Spanish Marilyn Kallet Lyn Lifshin Ryan G. Van Cleave Emmanuel Moses Janice Moore Fuller Jonathan Greene Simon Perchik Essay Kathryn Stripling Byer Keith Flynn Rene Char Dede Wilson Lee Ann Brown Patrick Bizzaro Russian Emöke Z. B’Racz Quincy Troupe Thomas Rain Crowe Welsh Jonathan Williams Thomas P. Feeny R. T. Smith Michael Harper Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Nancy Naomi Carlson Review William Matthews Hungarian Phebe Davidson Robert Bly Newton Smith Jeffery Beam Robert Creeley Marilyn Hacker Jack Hirschman