Derek Gromadzki is a poet and translator. His first book of poems, Pilgrimage Suites, is forthcoming later this year from Free Verse Editions / Parlor Press. And his most recent translations, collaborations with Sayuri Okamoto, can be found in Alice, Iris, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu, just out from New Directions.
I think that the moment we’re living in offers the best opportunity we’ve had in a long time in that a lot of things having to do with identity politics are being talked about in poems.