Current Projects:

Eric Torgersen is currently at work on two book projects: a collection of ghazals to be called In Which We See Our Selves: American Ghazals, and a collection of translations from the German poet Nicolas Born.

Recent, current and forthcoming publications.*
*for an absurdly complete E.T. bibliography, click here.

Forthcoming:
A ghazal, "Holy," in New Letters.
Two ghazals, both called "Of Ghazals," in Cafe Review.
Four ghazals, "The Lesson," "In Poems," "Detector," "Ran Out," in Parting Gifts.
"For Pasolini," a translation from Nicolas Born, in Slope.
"Good Morning," "The Man Who Was Buried Alive," A Song That Everyone Knows," "A Single Body" (four translations from Nicolas Born) in Zoland Poetry.
A ghazal, "Back Then," in 32poems.
"A Few Notes from the Elbholz," translation of Nicolas Born's "Ein Paar Notizen aus dem Elbholz," in Field, Fall 2010.
"In Praise of Public Radio" in Pearl.

Current and Recent:
A ghazal, "With Elvis," Iron Horse Literary Review 12:1, Spring 2010..
A ghazal, "With You," Third Wednesday 2:1, Winter 2009/2010..
"Case Studies I," in North American Review 294:3-4, May-August, 2009..
"Villanelle of the Final Report" in I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, Lost Horse Press, 2009.
Two ghazals, "Scenario" and "Yet," in New Ohio Review #6, Fall 2009.
"Love on the Friendship Quilt," "Killing the Milk Snakes," "I Will Die in Lake Superior" in Ambassador Poetry, Sept.     2009.
Two ghazals, "And Play" and "Postmodern," in Parting Gifts, Summer 2009.
Three ghazals, "Hands," "Out Here," "Locked," in New Letters, Winter-Spring 2009.
A translation of Nicolas Born, "Child," in Atlanta Review, Spring-Summer 2009.
"Chanson Americaine" in Main Street Rag, Spring 2009.
Four translations from NIcolas Born, "On the Inside of Poems," "Landscape with Big Car," "Parting for Life and Parting for Death," and "Before Falling Asleep," in Exquisite Corpse #15, http://www.corpse.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=1 . The same poems now appear in the Exquisite Corpse (print) Annual, #1.
A translation from Nicolas Born, "That's Where He Learned What War Is, He Says," in Field, Fall 2008. 
A ghazal, "Said," in Zone 3, Fall 2008.
"A Counting" in Eclipse, Fall 2008.
"In the Hospital Where Coltrane Died" in Exquisite Corpse 14, http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_14/poetick_kulchur/torgersen.html
A little essay called "Urds" in Vocabula Review (subscription required to read the whole thing).

Recent Appearances etc:
E.T. served as judge for the 2010 PoetryJett.com / National Poetry Month Prize at Central Michigan University.

E. T. served as visiting writer for the Upper Peninsula Writing Project Retreat August 17-18, 2009.

E.T. read briefly along with other contributors to the launch issue of the new online journal The Ambassador Poetry Project, September 25, 2009 at 7:00 pm in the Grosse Pointe Art Center. See www.ambassadorpoetry.com for more details on this interesting new project to bring together the poets of Michigan and Ontario.

E.T. read his poetry October 5, 2009 in the Art Reach Center, 319 S. University, Mt. Pleasant, in the new Wellspring Literary Series. For more information about this ongoing series, contact coordinator Robert Fanning.

last updated November 13, 2009