Daniel Weissbort

Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes founded the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation in 1965. Until 1999 Weissbort directed the Translation Program at the University of Iowa. He has published anthologies of Russian and East European poetry as well as collections of his own peotry. Ted Hughes and Weissbort edited a Selected Poems of Yehuda Amichai (Faber, 2000). Weissbort is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Translation at the University of Warwick.

Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes founded the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation in 1965. Until 1999 Weissbort directed the Translation Program at the University of Iowa. He has published anthologies of Russian and East European poetry as well as collections of his own peotry. Ted Hughes and Weissbort edited a Selected Poems of Yehuda Amichai (Faber, 2000). Weissbort is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Translation at the University of Warwick. See less