Dennis Nurkse

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Dennis Nurkse is a poet from Brooklyn. His collections include Voices Over Water, Leaving Xaia, and The Rules of Paradise published by Four Way books.

Nurkse is the son of the eminent economist Ragnar Nurkse. He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines. He has taught at The New School University and Columbia University.

He has translated anonymous medieval and flamenco Spanish lyric poems.

[edit] References

• Interview with Dennis Nurkse in the Bloomsbury Review

• [1] The Evergreen Review, edited by Barney Rosset.
• [2] Ars Interpres International. Edited to by Alexander Dereiv.