For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Jeffrey Green is a writer and translator living in Israel. He has a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard, and has published, among other things, a novel in Hebrew, a book of poetry and a book about translation.
On the Aegean island of Skyros, in the Carnival period immediately preceding Lent, a more ancient ritual takes place. Male inhabitants don an animal-like...