Donald Wellman

Donald Wellman, poet, essayist, and editor, has translated the poetry of Antonio Gamoneda (Cervantes Prize 2006). Wellman’s poetry includes A North Atlantic Wall, recently released by Dos Madres Press. In 2009, his Prolog Pages was published by Ahdada. Other titles include Urika, a chapbook from Boat Train in Gloucester, Baroque Threads (Mudlark) and Fields (Light and Dust). From 1981-1994, he edited the O.ARS series of anthologies, devoted to topics bearing on postmodern poetics, including volumes entitled Coherence, Perception and Translations: Experiments in Reading. In addition to Gamoneda, he has translated the poetry of Emilio Prados, Blaise Cendrars and Yvan Goll, among others. His translation of Gamoneda’s Gravestones is available from the University of New Orleans Press. He teaches at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH.