Yvette Neisser
Award-winning poet and Spanish translator
Latest News
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From the Diary of Madame Mao wins Carnegie Mellon University Press Translation Prize! Yvette Neisser and Patricia Bejarano Fisher's co-translation of Maria Teresa Ogliastri's haunting poetry collection is forthcoming in October 2026.
- Two new poems published in Mid-Atlantic Review
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Yvette's poem "Dwellers" published in Keith Kozloff's Anthropocene Visions and Voices art/poetry exhibit.
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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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June 11, 2026, 7pm: Reading from A Handbook of Foams by Gerardo Diego, translated by Francisco Aragon, The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD.
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June 28, 2026, 12:15pm: DC-ALT Literary Translation Panel @ Capital Love Lit Fest, The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD.
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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