Dara Barnat’s poetry, translations, and essays appear in The Cortland Review, Poet Lore, Ha’aretz, Lilith, Los Angeles Review of Books, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, andelsewhere. Her collection of poems In the Absence is forthcoming from WordTech/Turning Point in 2016. She holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University and currently teaches at York College and Queens College in New York. darabarnat.com
Poet and translator Tomás Q. Morin discusses his recent translation of Pablo Neruda's The Heights of Macchu Picchu, his relationship to the poet, and the role of translation in the world today.