Aleš Šteger, who is from Slovenia, writes incredibly diverse and creative poems. Topics of his work range from a meta-analysis of poetry, to European nationalism, to urinals. Šteger’s work has been translated into 16 languages. In 1998, Šteger received the Veronika Award, which recognizes the best Slovenian poetry collection for his book Kashmir. Nathalie Handal is an international poet with roots in the Middle East, Latin America and France. Handal edited the anthology The Poetry of Arab Women. Handal’s work manages to simultaneously encapsulate universal histories and also be intensely personal. Elisa Biagini is a poet and teaches writing at NYU Florence
