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.
Donations at the Sponsor level ($2500+) and Angel level ($5000+) support author and translator fees, editing and proofreading, design and printing… everything that goes into making a book of poetry in translation.
We are now seeking sponsorship for the books listed on this page concurrently with our fundraising campaign for the 25th year of the Eastern European Poets Series.
To sponsor one of the books below, simply click “Donate” on this page and select it from the dropdown list you’ll see at the bottom of the pop-up form below your address.
To inquire about particular titles or authors we’re publishing in the future, whether or not they appear on this list, please write directly to Matvei Yankelevich (editors [at] worldpoetrybooks.com) and Katie Long (development [at] 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.
We are also seeking support for A Ukrainian Century: Poems 1900–1999, edited by Ostap Kin and Ainsley Morse. which 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. Click here to support this important anthology.