The Academy of American Poets and Words Without Borders are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2020 Poems in Translation Contest, whose four winning translated poems were selected by the editors of Words Without Borders and contest judge David Tomas Martinez from more than 900 poems translated from 58 languages.
The four winners are:
1. "Learning Late Letters" by Nguyễn Hoàng Quyên, translated from Vietnamese by the author (to be published in Poem-a-Day on September 12)
2. "Pegasus Autopsy" by Julio Pazos Barrera, translated from Spanish by Bryan Mendoza (to be published in Poem-a-Day on September 19)
3. "Trial Run" by Yau Ching, translated from Chinese by Chenxin Jiang (to be published in Poem-a-Day on September 26)
4. "Birds in Flight, 1965" Enrique Villasis, translated from Filipino by Bernard Capinpin (to be published in Poem-a-Day on October 3)