Ars Interpres is an online and in-print international literary journal, originating in Stockholm. It publishes primarily contemporary English language poetry and English translations of modern Scandinavian and European poetry, as well as articles on poetic translation and other related materials. Ars Interpres also includes reviews, review-essays, interviews, art, and photography.

Ars Interpres is published in Stockholm. This city facilitates the excellent networking of international poetry cultures in a geographically convenient center. In addition to this, Stockholm also serves (thanks to Alfred Nobel) as the recognized literature capital of the world.

Finally, the journal s staff organises the Ars Interpres annual poetry festival.

The magazine has featured fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays by such internationally renowned writers as Les Murray, Ruth Padel, G ran Sonnevi, Eamon Grennan, Pia Tafdrup, Seamus Heaney, Giannina Braschi, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Diane di Prima, Regina Derieva, Alicia Ostriker, Dennis Nurkse, Tomas Venclova, Mariela Griffor, John Kinsella, and Gunnar Harding. In addition Ars Interpres publishes translations of new work being written around the globe, new visions of classical poems, and translations of European and Russian poets of the past such as Giacomo Leopardi, Gerrit Achterberg, and Osip Mandelstam.

See also

• List of literary magazines

References

• A New Connection in Stockholm, NY Arts Magazine, May/June 2006 http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3340&Itemid=616
• Show #66: Europa & Show #116: Ars Interpres, Cross-Cultural Poetics (inside PENNsound - Electronic Poetry Center), 10-29-06 http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/XCP.html

External links

• Ars Interpres Web site