STEPHAN DELBOS | EDITOR

Stephan Delbos is the Poet Laureate of Plymouth, MA. His poetry, essays and translations have appeared internationally. He is the editor of From a Terrace in Prague: A Prague Poetry Anthology (Litteraria Pragensia, 2011). His play Chetty’s Lullaby, about the life of trumpet legend Chet Baker, was produced in San Francisco in 2014. Deaf Empire, his play about Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, was produced by the Prague Shakespeare Company in 2017. His co-translation of The Absolute Gravedigger, by Czech Surrealist poet Vítězslav Nezval, was awarded the PEN/Heim Translation grant in 2015 and was published by Twisted Spoon Press. He is also the co-translator of Nezval’s Woman in the Plural (Twisted Spoon, 2021), and the translator of contemporary Czech poet Tereza Riedlbauchová’s Paris Notebook (The Visible Spectrum, 2020).  He is the author of the poetry chapbook In Memory of Fire (Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2017), and the poetry collections Light Reading (BlazeVOX, 2019); and Small Talk (Dos Madres Press, 2021). His scholarly study, The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism, was published by Palgrave. He is a founding editor of B O D Y.

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Recent Books

Woman in the Plural, by Vítězslav Nezval, translated from the Czech by Stephan Delbos and Tereza Novická. Twisted Spoon Press, 2021 / 198 pages / $21
Woman in the Plural, by Vítězslav Nezval, translated from the Czech by Stephan Delbos and Tereza Novická. Twisted Spoon Press, 2021 / 198 pages / $21
Small Talk: Poems, by Stephan Delbos, Dos Madres Press, 2021: 96 pages
Small Talk: Poems, by Stephan Delbos, Dos Madres Press, 2021: 96 pages
Two Poems : Dvě poémy A bilingual edition in English and Czech Translated by Tereza Riedlbauchová and Radka Thea Otípková Foreword by Tereza Riedlbauchová The Literary Salon, 2021 124 pages
Two Poems : Dvě poémy A bilingual edition in English and Czech, translated by Tereza Riedlbauchová and Radka Thea Otípková. Foreword by Tereza Riedlbauchová. The Literary Salon, 2021 124 pages
Light Reading, by Stephan Delbos, BlazeVOX, 2019, 102 pages
Light Reading, by Stephan Delbos, BlazeVOX, 2019, 102 pages

Essays, Picks, Interviews & Translations In B O D Y

Books in Brief

Eight recent volumes of poetry, prose, and photography, reviewed by our editors

Favorites from the Last 10 Years, Selected by Stephan Delbos

Publishing writing you love is the greatest pleasure of editing a literary journal. It’s hard to believe B O D Y has been around for 10 years and I’m astounded by the quality and variety of writing in our archives. Herewith some of my favorites.

Tim Postovit

I was the last place on the planet / where astronauts slept / my last customers were the planet’s / last people