Brenda Porster
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Brenda Porster was born in Philadelphia and completed her studies in the U.S. before moving to Florence, Italy, where she has lived and worked for most of her life. Her poems, written both in English and Italian, appear in numerous literary magazines, poetry anthologies and online literary sites in Italy and abroad, and have been translated into several languages.
For some years now she has been the Italian-English translator for Voyages, the Journal of New York University in Florence, and for the Florentine annual poetry festival. She has co-edited and translated three anthologies of contemporary women’s poetry in English and Italian.
Some of her work
Poems by Brenda Porster
Brenda Porster writes both in English and Italian. Her poems appeared in numerous literary magazines, poetry anthologies and online literary sites in Italy and abroad, and have been translated into several languages.
The Birthday – Mia Lecomte
Mia Lecomte is an Italian poet and writer of French origin. Author of many publications, her works have been translated into several languages.
Blue (The Night We Died of Plague) – Giuseppe A. Samonà
All dishevelled, she comes through the woods along the path joining her house to ours, brandishing a newspaper and shouting, cholera! cholera! And indeed the front page announces three or four cases in Naples, maybe even ten – along with mussels, vibrio bacteria, panic.
Nicely done
Beautiful 😊😊👌🏽
Loved the way Debraj links it a full circle, though they're 3 characters from different novels. Kudos!!
Excellent translation doing full justice to the essence of the original poems
Excellent rendering.
Simply beautiful 😍