Michael Favala Goldman is a Danish literary translator, educator and jazz clarinetist. Goldman’s books of original poetry include Who has time for this? (2020), Slow Phoenix (2021), Small Sovereign (2021), If you were here you would feel at home (2022), and This May Sound Familiar (2022). Among his seventeen translated books are Dependency (Penguin Classics) by Tove Ditlevsen, The Water Farm Trilogy by Cecil Bødker, and Something To Live Up To, Selected Poems of Benny Andersen. His work has appeared in scores of literary journals and has received rave reviews in the New York Times and The London Times. Goldman lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, where he has been running poetry critique groups since 2018. He also serves as Chair of the Program Committee for Straw Dogs Writers Guild and as Member of the Board of Directors for the Northampton Center for the Arts.

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This Week’s Prompt:

Find a photograph at least 100 years old that includes a person. Write a poem as a letter to that person.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Pick a poem written in a language you don’t speak. “Translate” the poem into English, without looking up any of the words.

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