Three Poems

Marius Burokas is a poet and translator. He studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University. Now he is a freelance writer and translator. Burokas made his debut with the poetry collection Ideogramos (Ideograms, 1999). His third book, Išmokau nebūti (I've Learned Not To Be, 2011) was awarded The Young Yotvingian prize for the best young poet's book published in the previous two years. This book was also awarded the Antanas Miškinis literary prize. He is the editor-in-chief of How the Earth Carries Us: New Lithuanian Poets (Vilnius, 2015). Burokas's poetry has been translated into Polish, Russian, Latvian, Finnish, Slovenian, English, German, and Ukrainian. His poetry has also been included in the anthology New European Poets (2008). He has translated the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams, and the prose of J. G. Ballard, Charles Bukowski, Philip Roth, Jeanette Winterson, and others, into Lithuanian.

Rimas Uzgiris is a Lithuanian poet and translator writing in English. Born and raised in the United States, educated at UCSD, UW-Madison, Rutgers-Newark, he is the author of the poetry collections North of Paradise (Kelsay Books, 2019), and Tarp (Between; Kauko laiptai, 2019), a book of poems translated into Lithuanian, which was shortlisted for best poetry book of the year. He has translated seven poetry collections from Lithuanian, including Then What by Gintaras Grajauskas (Bloodaxe Books, 2018) and Vagabond Sun by Judita Vaičiūnaitė (Shearsman Books, 2018). He also translated the opera Sun & Sea, which won the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. His poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, Hudson Review, Poetry Daily, The Poetry Review, and other journals. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant and an NEA Translation Fellowship, he teaches at Vilnius University.