Yvette Neisser
Award-winning poet and Spanish translator
Latest News
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Oct. 26-Nov. 22, 2025: "Anthropocene Visions and Voices" exhibit featuring artwork by Keith Kozloff and poems by 16 local poets, including Yvette. Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD. Opening Reception Nov. 7.
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Yvette's translation of Pablo Neruda's "Oh Vastness of Pines" forthcoming in Fall issue of Poet Lore.
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"To America" (poem) published in America's Future Anthology (Washington Writers' Publishing House, Sep. 2025)
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From the Diary of Madame Mao—Yvette Neisser and Patricia Fisher's co-translation of Maria Teresa Ogliastri's haunting poetry collection—won the 2025 Carnegie Mellon University Translation Prize! Forthcoming in Fall 2026.
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Monday, Nov. 10, 7:00pm: Anthology Reading. Yvette and other local authors read from America's Future, an anthology published by Washington Writer's Publishing House. The Inner Loop reading series. Shaw's Tavern, 520 Florida Ave., NW, Washington, DC.
Reviews of Iron into Flower:
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Loch Raven Review (Apr. 2023)
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Washington City Paper (review & interview, Jan. 2023)
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Savvy Verse & Wit (Dec. 2022)
About Iron into Flower:
"Neisser takes her readers on a journey examining family, religion, love, loss, grief, and recovery ... There is an ache at the center of each poem in this collection – an ache to connect, an ache to understand, an ache to set things right, an ache to reclaim what has been lost. Like the title of the collection suggests, Neisser’s poems consistently turn something hard and cold into something fragile and beautiful."
-Ginny Phalen, Loch Raven Review
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