Marc Vincenz

Vincenz has published twelve books of poetry, including more recently, Becoming the Sound of Bees (Ampersand Press, 2016), Leaning into the Infinite (Dos Madres Press, 2018) and The Syndicate of Water & Light (Station Hill, 2018). Vincenz is also a prolific translator and has translated from the German, Romanian and French. He has published ten books of translations, most recently Unexpected Development by award-winning Swiss poet and novelist Klaus Merz (White Pine, 2018) and which was a finalist for the 2105 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation. His work has received fellowships and grants from the Swiss Arts Council, the Literary Colloquium Berlin, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

About Vincenz’s poetry, Cole Swenson has said: “Vincenz’s poetry asks large and eternal questions and then deftly turns our attention to sharp details, the small ringing specifics that make up the concrete world …”. And Tony Hoagland: “The ambitious poems of Marc Vincenz don’t fit into any poetic scene or aesthetic camp I can name—he is an internationalist, and his work mixes far-flung flavors: a little Hart Crane, a little Italo Calvino, a little Pavese, … possibly a little Vallejo?”

Vincenz is International Editor of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poety and publisher and editor of MadHat Press and Plume Editions. Vincenz has lived in many countries, including Iceland, Spain, India and China, but now resides in rural Western Massachusetts.