Three Poems by Alma Riebždaitė translated by Dave Seter

Alma Riebždaitė grew up in a small village in Lithuania near meadows, forests, marshes, and  the Baltic Sea. She studied Lithuanian philology and stage directing at Klaipėda University. She has worked at various jobs in her life. In addition to poems, she writes essays, short stories, and travel impressions. Her work has been published in many art and culture publications in Lithuania. She has published one book of poetry Beribė (Limitless). She is also a photographer and artist who looks for points of contact between different types of art, and who organizes art exhibitions. She gets her inspiration from nature in her search for existential meaning.

Dave Seter is the author of Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences (Cherry Grove Collections, 2021) and Night Duty (Main Street Rag, 2010). Educated as a civil engineer, he writes about social and environmental issues. He is a translator of contemporary Lithuanian poetry. His poems have won the KNOCK Ecolit Prize, received third place in the William Matthews competition, and received honorable mention in the Paterson Literary Review’s Allen Ginsberg competition. He is the recipient of two Pushcart nominations. He earned his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Princeton University and his graduate degree in humanities from Dominican University of California.

27 December 2022