Anne-Marie Derése in Translation & The Green Parrot by Judith Skillman (253 KB )

Ahadada Books is pleased to present Anne-Marie Derése in Translation & The Green Parrot by Judith Skillman.

Anne-Marie Derése in Translation & The Green Parrot is the seventeenth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Over the past three decades Judith Skillman has written and published numerous poems for books, journals, and anthologies.  She has collaborative translations from Portuguese, Italian, and French. Skillman's publications include FIELD, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, The Northwest Review, and Midwest Quarterly.  She has ten books of poems.

From 1977 - 1978 she held a teaching assistantship at the University of Maryland, while working towards my masters degree in English Literature.  She received the King County Arts Commission’s Publication Prize in 1987, judged by Madeline DeFrees.  This prize enabled her to find a publisher for her first book, “Worship of the Visible Spectrum” (Breitenbush Books.) In 1991 Skillman was awarded a Washington State Arts Commission Writer’s Fellowship. 

Read more about Judith Skillman here.