Yvette Neisser
Award-winning poet and Spanish translator
Latest News
-
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.
-
"The House" (nonfiction) published in Grit & Gravity anthology of DC-area women writers (May 2025)
-
Three new poems in Gargoyle (March 2025)
-
"To America" (poem) forthcoming in America's Future Anthology (Washington Writers' Publishing House, Sep. 2025)
Reviews of Iron into Flower:
-
Loch Raven Review (Apr. 2023)
-
Washington City Paper (review & interview, Jan. 2023)
-
Savvy Verse & Wit (Dec. 2022)
-
Wednesday, Aug. 27: Yvette will be the featured reader at Open Notes series in Gaithersburg, MD.
-
Monday, Sep. 29: Yvette will read with other multilingual writers/translators at Translation Festival 2025, at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC.
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
Order from Finishing Line Press, your local independent bookstore, bookshop.org, or Amazon.