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    Books

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      Current

      Lily Poetry Review Books, 2026

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      What Drifted Here

      Cherry Grove Collections, 2023

    • Between the Hours book cover

      Between the Hours

      Finishing Line Press, 2022

    • Take Five book cover

      Take Five: Prose Poems by 5 Poets

      Finishing Line Press, 2020

    • Once in Every Language book cover

      Once in Every Language

      Kelsay Books, 2017

    • A Bridge of Voices book cover

      A Bridge of Voices: Contemporary Slovene Poetry and Perspectives

      Bridges Press, 2017

    • Fire Road book cover

      Fire Road

      Dream Horse Press, 2013

    • Look Back, Look Ahead book cover

      Look Back, Look Ahead: The Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel

      Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010

    Poems

    • Refuge

      On the Seawall, 2026

    • Two Poems

      2River, 2025

      • Epistle to the Late Fall Weeds
      • Found Among the Lost
    • Elegy for a Scrap

      Poetry Porch, 2025

    • Four Poems

      Ninth Heaven, 2025

      • I wake to be unlocked
      • Invisible Home
      • Friedrich's Monk
      • Onions
    • School

      eMerge Magazine, 2025

    • To the Other Side

      eMerge Magazine, 2025

    • His Sign Asks for Water

      eMerge Magazine, 2024

    • To a Further Blossoming

      eMerge Magazine, 2024

    • Four Poems

      Poetry Porch, 2024

      • Address Book
      • Questions for a Bench on a Hill
      • Is that a God you are speaking to?
      • Patch of Woods
    • Three Poems

      Poetry Porch, 2023

      • The Current
      • Some Unearthly Grace
      • The Way of Leaves
    • After a Terrorist Attack

      Verse Daily, 2023

    • The Scent

      The Bluebird Word, 2023

    • A Forest Remnant

      Poetry Porch, 2022

    • Four Poems

      Avatar Review, 2022

      • Uninhabited Regions
      • Coyote Prints
      • August My Body
      • Lessening
    • Four Poems

      Poetry Porch, 2021

      • Voices in Leaves
      • The Speech of Trees
      • Beech in the Public Garden
      • To an Asylum Seeker
    • The Face & Late August

      Glimpse, 2021

      • The Face
      • Late August
    • The Fog is Adrift

      Solstice, 2021

    • Four Poems

      Poetry Porch, 2020

      • Still
      • Pinhole
      • Arthur (Boo) Radley Speaks
      • Intimate Stranger
    • Pip in the Waves

      American Journal of Poetry, 2020

    • Joseph Cornell Tries to Explain

      Lily Poetry Review, 2019

    • The Deepening

      Solstice, 2018

    • On Silence

      Lake Effect, 2017

    • Owl Mountains & Descent

      Poetry Porch, 2017

      • Owl Mountains
      • Descent
    • There is No Word & Feeding my Father

      Prairie Schooner, 2015

      • There is No Word
      • Feeding my Father
    • Without Touching

      Carolina Quarterly, 2012

    • To the Blank Page

      Louisville Review

    • Shadow Crossing

      New Ohio Review

    • Self Love

      Mid-American Review

    • Kafka & Morning Walk

      The Cafe Review

      • Kafka
      • Morning Walk
    • Holy Things & Suburban Education

      AGNI

      • Holy Things
      • Suburban Education
    • Blue Stain

      The Ocean State Review

    • Beyond My Shoes

      Asheville Poetry Review

    • Trakl

      Muddy River Poetry Review

    • Encounter in Berlin

      Poetry Porch

    • Phantom Questions

      Poetry Porch

    • Five Poems

      Avatar Review

      • Undertow
      • Open Season
      • The Pear
      • Recordings
      • Through the Window
    • Three Poems

      The Lake Poetry

      • Carving the Silence
      • On the Day My Father Died
      • To a Speck
    • Waking Alone

      Poesis

    • Five Poems

      Cutthroat 21

      • What the Spruces Might Say
      • A Little History
      • Bora
      • Locked in the Marble
      • Moment of Silence
    • Wintry Mix & Sponge Bath

      The Carolina Quarterly

      • Wintry Mix
      • Sponge Bath
    • Trees Lie Broken Everywhere

      Salamander #43

    • A Parable

      Burningwood Literary Journal

    • Je Suis Personne

      Potomac Review

    • The Wild Part

      Two Cities Review

    • A Resonant Space

      Cortland Review

    Translations

    • Presence

      by Miriam Drev. Ballast, 2025

      Translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson

    • Stranger

      by Miriam Drev. Acumen Poetry (UK) January, 2025

      Translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson

    • Four Poems

      by Miriam Drev. Poetry Porch, 2025

      Translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson

      • Fox
      • Whistling
      • Cradle
      • Helix
    • Two Poems

      by Miriam Drev. Poetry Porch, 2024

      Translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson

      • My Loved Ones
      • Beauty
    • Two Poems

      by Miriam Drev. Alchemy, 2023

      Translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson

      • The Double Ring
      • Black Stitches
    • Seven Translations

      by Miriam Drev. Ezra, 2023

      Translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson

    • The Heron & Owlet

      by Miriam Drev. Poetry Miscellany, 2022

      Translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson

      • The Heron
      • Owlet
    • A small coat

      by Srecko Kosovel. 2019

      Patti Smith reading Kosovel's 'A small coat' at her concert in Trieste Nov 28, 2019

    • This Hollowed-Out Place That Barely Exists

      by Meta Kusar. Mid-American Review, 2016

      Translation chapbook, translated by Ana Jelnikar, Barbara Siegel Carlson & Stephen Watts

    • Five Poems

      by Meta Kusar. Circumference, 2015

      Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Siegel Carlson

      • Five Poems in translation
    • Four Poems

      by Srecko Kosovel. Metamorphoses, 2015

      Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Siegel Carlson

    • Eleven Poems

      by Srecko Kosovel. Metamorphoses, 2009

      Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Siegel Carlson

    • Face in Solitude

      by Srecko Kosovel. Solstice

      Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Siegel Carlson

    • Night Meeting

      by Srecko Kosovel. Solstice

      Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Siegel Carlson

    • Tortoise

      by Srecko Kosovel. Solstice

      Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Siegel Carlson

    Essays

    • How Five Slovenian Women Poets Tear Apart Frames to Find their Speech

      2021

    • Invisible Strings: Exploring Connections Between the Poetries of Jean Valentine and Meta Kusar

      Primerjalna knjizevnost Ljubljana, 2019

    • Resounding Notes: Words for Silence in the Slovene Language and its Poetry

      Slovene Studies, Volume 40, numbers 1-2, 2018

    • Poetry as Translation: Fusions of an Unfinishable Art

      New Perspectives on American Poetry, edited by Jiri Flajsar and Pauline Flajsarova. Olomouc, 2015

    • Creating a Golden Boat

      Metamorphosis, 2008

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