Blackbird ArchivePatty Crane
Patty Crane is the author of the poetry collection BELL I WAKE TO (Zone 3 Press First Book Award, 2019) and the chapbook something flown (Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2018). Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, and Verse Daily. BRIGHT SCYTHE, a bilingual volume of her translations of Swedish poet and 2011 Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer, was published by Sarabande Books (2015). Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, The New York Times Magazine, PEN Poetry Series, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Crane’s work has been supported by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony.
Tomas Tranströmer, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, is the author of nineteen collections of poetry in his native country of Sweden and is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading poets. Tranströmer is the recipient of many awards and honors in Sweden and worldwide, including the Swedish Award of the International Poetry Forum, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Petrarch Prize in Germany, the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings and a Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award in 2007. Many of his collections have been translated into English, including The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010), The Great Enigma: Collected Poems (New Directions, 2006), and The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer (Graywolf Press, 2001).
Patty Crane’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary , Bellevue Literary Review, RUNES, The Massachusetts Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and West Branch , among other journals. Her awards include the 2004 Two Rivers Review Poetry Prize and Atlanta Review’s 2005 International Publication Prize.