Maia Evrona is a poet, writer and translator. Her translations of Yiddish poetry have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Literary Translators Association and the National Yiddish Book Center. Her first full-length collection, "From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch; The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler," was published by White Goat Press in 2023, while over seventy of her translations of Avrom Sutzkever have appeared in literary journals. Her own poetry has been supported with two joint Fulbright Scholar Awards to Spain and Greece. She has been characterized as a representative of a new generation of Yiddish poet-translators."
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Texts & Translation
לידער פֿון טאָגבוך
Three poems from Poems from my Diary
Abraham Sutzkever
Translation by Maia Evrona
Texts & Translation
“אַלטמאָדיש“ און „דער ים„
“Old-Fashioned” and “The Sea”