Poems translated by Monica Cure

Monica Cure is a Romanian-American poet and literary translator currently based in Bucharest. She is a two-time Fulbright grantee and her poems have appeared internationally in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Salamander, and Graywolf Lab. Her poetry translations likewise have been published internationally in Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Liliana Corobca’s novel The Censor’s Notebook.

  • Two Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure

    In the first three days I heard my mother
  • Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure

    Adila watches as evening falls
  • A Tall Bird 

    on the one hand, beauty remains.
  • Tartine. Quasi-unfamiliar. To handle a relationship

    In her teenage years,