Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg: is an internationally known poet, translator, performance artist, and anthologist with over eighty books of poetry and essays. His anthologies include Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and the three–volume Poems for the Millennium. He has been the recipient of an American Book Award, two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards, and two PEN Center U.S.A. West Translation Awards. In 2011 he received the prestigious Medalla al Mérito Literario from the International Chihuahua Poetry Festival in Mexico.