John Rosenwald

About the Artist

John Rosenwald lives in Farmington, Maine. From 1976 until 2009 he served as Professor of English at Beloit College. As Fulbright Professor of American Culture, he has taught in China at Fudan, Nankai, and Zhejiang Universities. He joined the Beloit Poetry Journal staff in 1976 and was co-editor from 2002 until 2015. Recent work involves collaborative translation of contemporary Chinese poets and organization of exhibitions of Chinese peasant artists. His poems and translations from German and Chinese have appeared in numerous journals. In 2018 both Harvest: Selected Poems and an experimental novel The Feast of Steven were published. In 2022 his translation of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus won the MWPA prize for Excellence in Publishing. He has given more than five hundred public readings in the U. S., China, Germany, Canada, and England. Since 1975 he has participated in the Annual Conference on the Great Mother and the New Father, originally organized by Robert Bly.