One-Time Publications
Beginning with a collaborative publication through Random House in 1968, the International Poetry Forum has sponsored a number of one-time publishing projects, including Mundus Artium, a journal of international literature; Laureano Alabán's Enciclopedia de maravillas (Encyclopedia of Wonders), a three-volume encyclopedia composed entirely in verse; a previously unpublished translation of Federico García Lorca's Canciones (Songs); and more.
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Olga Carlisle (ed.), POETS ON STREET CORNERS (Random House, 1968)
Translations of 15 modern Russian poets (including Boris Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko) by 20 Anglophone poets (including Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, W.S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, Jean Valentine, Samuel Hazo, and Richard Wilbur). Publication was the supported by a grant from the International Poetry Forum, which hosted a celebratory reading in Pittsburgh with Merwin, Rich, Valentine, and others in 1969.
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MUNDUS ARTIUM: A JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE AND THE ARTS (International Poetry Forum, 1972–1981)
Founded in 1967 by Rainer Schulte, MUNDUS ARTIUM originated as a forum for international poetry, philosophy, literary translation, and art. The journal has published renowned authors such as Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Lucille Clifton, Eliot Weinberger, Joyce Carol Oates, W.H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Heinrich Böll, Yves Bonnefoy, Archibald MacLeish, Denise Levertov, John Berryman, Tomas Tranströmer, and hundreds more. From 1972–1981, MUNDUS ARTIUM was published by the International Poetry Forum under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
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Federico García Lorca, SONGS (Duquesne University Press, 1976)
Translated by Philip Cummings with the assistance of Federico García Lorca; edited by Daniel Eisenberg. Published with a grant from the International Poetry Forum. Notable as the "only translation of Lorca's poetry in which the author actively assisted. It was made in August of 1929 at Eden Mills, Vermont, during the ten days which Federico spent with his American friend Philip Cummings after the conclusion of the Columbia University summer session" (Editor's Introduction).
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Willis Barnstone (ed.), MODERN EUROPEAN POETRY (Bantam Books, 1978 reissue)
Originally published in 1966, this expansive volume contains hundreds of translations of modern European and Latin American poetry. Featured poets include Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Salvatore Quasimodo, Bertolt Brecht, Boris Pasternak, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Ramón Jimenez, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ingeborg Bachmann, Octavio Paz, and many more. Reissued with a grant from the International Poetry Forum.
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Laureano Alabán, ENCICLOPEDIA DE MARAVILLAS / ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WONDERS (International Poetry Forum, 1995)
Written by Laureano Albán, Costa Rican poet and diplomat, and translated by Frederick H. Hornoff, former president of the American Literary Translators Association. This dual-language, three-volume, thousand-poem project stakes a claim to being "La primera enciclopedia escrita totalmente en poesía, en la historia de la humanidad" ("The first encyclopedia in the history of humanity to be written entirely in poetry"). Published by the International Poetry Forum with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the "Encyclopedia of Wonders" features over 300 works of art by some of the century's most celebrated Latin American artists.
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POETRY'S TIME, POETRY'S PLACE: ESSAYS AND SIGNATURES (International Poetry Forum, 1996)
Collection of essays and facsimiles of handwritten poems by alumni of the International Poetry Forum. On the occasion of their visit to Pittsburgh, each poet would offer a handwritten poem (or "autograph") to the Forum. Contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Shihab Nye, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Wendell Berry, Octavio Paz, George Seferis, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tennessee Williams, Richmond Lattimore, Mary Oliver, and more.
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHERS OF EVERYBODY (International Poetry Forum, 2000; expanded ed., 2010)
Narrative history of the International Poetry Forum from 1966 to 2009, including stories and photographs of poetry readings by figures like Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary Oliver, Jorge Luis Borges, Grace Kelly, Danny Glover, James Earl Jones, Anthony Hopkins, and hundreds more. Compiled by Samuel Hazo, founder of the International Poetry Forum.
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