Solstice contributing editor Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella’s co-translations from the Ukrainian of “Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow: Selected Poems by Natalka Bilotserkivets” has been shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize in Poetry. Carolyn Forché, this year’s judge, will announce the winner on October 13th, 2022.

Our hearty congratulations also to Poetry Editor Robbie Gamble, whose chapbook “A Can of Pinto Beans” was a finalist for the New England Poetry Club’s 2022 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.

You can read Dzvinia’s interview with Jeff Friedman and Meg Pokrass and Robbie’s Poetry Editor’s Note in the Summer 2022 Issue of Solstice.