Poems translated by Arno Bohlmeijer

Arno Bohlmeijer, winner of a PEN America Grant 2021, is a poet and novelist writing in English and Dutch and published in six countries (US: Houghton Mifflin). His novel Narrowly, about rare solidarity, is forthcoming September 2025. More about him at  www.arnobohlmeijer.com

  • Poem by Hester Knibbe translated from Dutch by Arno Bohlmeijer

    Someone says I don’t know and the whole