Writers Read Event - Don Cellini

Don Cellini is a poet, translator and photographer. He is the author of Approximations /

Aproximaciones (2005) and Inkblots (2008) both collections of bilingual poems published by

March Street Press. His book of prose poems, Translate into English was released in 2010 by

Mayapple Press. His book of translations, Elías Nandino: Selected Poems (2010 McFarland

Publishers) is the first book-length translation of the Mexican poet. Imagenes para una

anunciacion/ Images for an annunciation, his translation of the work of Mexican poet Roxana

Elvridge-Thomas, was published in 2012 by FootHills Publishing, and Desire I remember but

love, no, a translation of the work by poet Sergio Tellez-Pon, by FloricantoPress in 2013. His

most recent book of poems, Candidates for sainthood and other sinners was released by

Mayapple Press this past summer. A recipient of fellowships from the King Juan Carlos

Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is professor emeritus at Adrian

College in Michigan.