Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems, including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s published translations of Dante’s Divine Comedy and Colonies of Paradise by Matthias Göritz. She is co-translator, with Yuki Tanaka, of A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi. She is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Contributions: Three poems [Fall 2025]