Michael March

Michal March, poet and translator, directs the Prague Writers' Festival (www.pwf.cz). A graduate of history at Columbia College, he is the author of five volumes of poetry, translated into seven languages. He co-translated Zbigniew Herbert's Barbarian in the Garden and Gojko Djogo's Ovid in Tomis and edited Child of Europe: The Penguin Anthology of East European Poetry and The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writing. In London, he founded The Covent Garden Readings at the Arts Theatre, the East European Forum at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and presented Child of Europe at the National Theatre.