Sponsor a Book
When you sponsor the translation and publication costs of a World Poetry title of your choice, we will acknowledge your support in the book and on the website, and send you a complimentary copy.
Concurrently with our fundraising campaign for the 25th year of the Eastern European Poets Series, we are now seeking sponsorship for the books listed on this page.
To sponsor one of these book, simply click here and select a donation of $2500 or more. Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers. We will be in touch about which book you’re supporting and any special requests for the credit line.
To inquire about particular titles or authors we’re publishing in the future, whether or not they appear on this list, please write directly Matvei Yankelevich <editors [@] worldpoetrybooks.com> and Katie Long <development [@] worldpoetrybooks.com>.
CURRENTLY SEEKING SPONSORSHIP FOR…
Prosthetics Factory, the first English-language selected volume of Ukrainian-Jewish poet Yan Satunovsky (1913–1982), a giant of Soviet underground literature; translated by Ainsley Morse and Philip Redko and introduced by Anna Glazova.
Legit Target, the first retrospective volume in English translation of contemporary Russian exile poet Dmitry Kuzmin, celebrated for his outspoken work about LGBTQ lives and politics in Eastern Europe; edited and introduced by Kevin M. F. Platt and Polina Barskova.
Beyond Salvation, the English-language debut of Kalmyk poet Dordzhi Dzhaldzhireev, one of today’s most boundary-pushing Russian-language writers; translated by Venya Gushchin and introduced by Alexey Masalov.
An expanded edition of Fifty Drops of Blood by Dmitri Prigov (1940–2007), one of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism, a post-modern pioneer of the late Soviet era and inspiration for contemporary radical artists and writers; translated by Christopher Mattison, and complemented by the author’s original artworks.
The first English translation of Maria Petrovykh (1908–1979), considered a great talent by Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Pasternak; translated from Russian by Kitty Hunter-Blair.
A Ukrainian Century: Poems 1900–1999, edited by Ostap Kin and Ainsley Morse, brings together 52 poets from the early avant-garde to the post-Soviet era, spanning two world wars, multiple revolutions, and other political upheavals, and in circumstances of alternating celebration and repression of the Ukrainian language.