Cole Swensen

Cole Swensen is the author of eleven books of poetry including Noon, The Book of a Hundred Hands, and Goest, which was a National Book Award Finalist. She has translated books by Pierre Alferi, Olivier Cadiot, and others, and her translation of Jean Fremon’s Island of the Dead won the PEN USA award in 2004. She is also the founder and editor of La Presse, which publishes contemporary French poetry in translation. She is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

• Review by Poetry Foundation's Harryette blog. August 2, 2011.
• Review by Rob McLennan. August 1, 2011.

• Poetry Project Newsletter review. Fall 2007.
• Rain Taxi review by Laura Sims Vol. 12 No. 3, Fall 2007
• Midwest Book Review, Small Press, March 2007
• PENNsound readings from the Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets.