Randall Couch

Randall Couch edited and translated "Madwomen: The 'Locas mujeres' Poems of Gabriela Mistral" (University of Chicago Press, 2008), which won Britain's biennial Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation and was one of two finalists for the PEN Award for Poetry Translation. A frequent panelist on the podcast series PoemTalk sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, PennSound, and Kelly Writers House, his poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published essays and book chapters on Ezra Pound, Gabriela Mistral, Harryette Mullen, and on ethics and reception in poetry translation. In 2000 and 2008, he was awarded poetry fellowships by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is an administrator at the University of Pennsylvania and since 2003 he has taught poetry writing and poetics at Arcadia University.