Tomaz Salamun
Tomaz Salamun is the author 30 books of poems translated into virtually every European language, including his most recent work, Feast. Considered the major poet in Europe today, he has won numerous awards for his writing including Fulbright and Pushcart Awards, The Preseren Prize, Jenko Prize, Mladost Prize and residencies at The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He has been a Cultural Attache in New York for the Republic of Slovenia, and has taught at the University of Alabama, and the University of Massachusetts, and has read and given workshops at dozens of colleges around the country and at numerous venues worldwide.
For more on Tomaz Salamun,
- Bio, poems, and article at Poetry International
- Bio and poems in English and Slovenian from the Blackbird archive, an online journal of literature and the arts.
- Three poems at Ekleksographia
- A bio, reviews, poems, and audio and video clips available from Blue Flower Arts
- Review of Woods and Chalices by Levi Stahl at The Quarterly Conversation
- See the video below of Salamun reading at the Lunch Poems event at Berkeley, UC.
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