Independent poetry press · New York
Poets & Traitors Press is an independent publisher of books of original poetry and translations by a single author/translator. Poets & Traitors seeks to showcase authors who travel between writing and translation, artists for whom Language is made manifest through languages and whose own word carries, shapes, and is shaped by that of another.
Explore the catalogue →“Baudelaire said poetry is essentially analogy... Between the language of the universe and the universe of language, there is a bridge, a link: poetry. The poet, says Baudelaire, is the translator.”Octavio Paz
Interview
Sophie Stephens speaks with Rachel TonThat, Richard Lourie, and Val Vinokur about Die Alp an sich, Little Treasons, Barking at God, literary translation, AI, and the relationship between translation and original writing.
September 2026Review
A review of Ambivalent Souls appeared in Slavic and Eastern European Journal.
2026Review
Venya Gushchin reviews Robert E. Tanner’s Ambivalent Souls for The Brooklyn Rail.
May 2026The press
Poets & Traitors Press is an independent publisher of books of original poetry and translations by a single author/translator. Poets & Traitors seeks to showcase authors who travel between writing and translation, artists for whom Language is made manifest through languages and whose own word carries, shapes, and is shaped by that of another.
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