Yvette Neisser
Award-winning poet and Spanish translator
Latest News
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Yvette's translation of Pablo Neruda's "Oh Vastness of Pines" published in Summer/Fall 2025 issue of Poet Lore.
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Yvette's poem "Wind, Tell My Future" published in WWPH Writes (Dec. 2, 2025).
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From the Diary of Madame Mao—Yvette Neisser and Patricia Fisher's co-translation of Maria Teresa Ogliastri's haunting poetry collection—won the 2025 Carnegie Mellon University Translation Prize! Forthcoming in Fall 2026.
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Stay tuned!
Reviews of Iron into Flower:
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Loch Raven Review (Apr. 2023)
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Washington City Paper (review & interview, Jan. 2023)
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Savvy Verse & Wit (Dec. 2022)
About Iron into Flower:
"Neisser takes her readers on a journey examining family, religion, love, loss, grief, and recovery ... There is an ache at the center of each poem in this collection – an ache to connect, an ache to understand, an ache to set things right, an ache to reclaim what has been lost. Like the title of the collection suggests, Neisser’s poems consistently turn something hard and cold into something fragile and beautiful."
-Ginny Phalen, Loch Raven Review
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