{"id":336,"date":"2023-01-07T07:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T07:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2024-11-27T20:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T20:02:52","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/index.php\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s me?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/StephanDelbos-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/StephanDelbos-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/StephanDelbos-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/StephanDelbos-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stephan Delbos<\/strong> is the author of the poetry chapbook\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecodpoetryreview.com\/contests.html\" title=\"\">In Memory of Fire<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2016); and the poetry collections\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazevox.org\/index.php\/Shop\/new-releases\/light-reading-by-stephan-delbos-528\/\" title=\"\">Light Reading<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(BlazeVOX, 2019);\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Products\/9781953252050\/small-talk.aspx\" title=\"\"><em>Small Talk<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(Dos Madres, 2021); and\u00a0<em>Two Poems<\/em>\u00a0(The Literary Salon, 2021). Two of his plays have been staged:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipwattcasting.com\/chettys-lullaby\" title=\"\">Chetty\u2019s Lullaby<\/a><\/em>, about trumpeter Chet Baker, in San Francisco in 2014, and\u00a0<em>Deaf Empire<\/em>, about composer Bed\u0159ich Smetana, by Prague Shakespeare Company in 2017. His translations from Czech include V\u00edt\u011bzslav Nezval\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twistedspoon.com\/absolute-gravedigger.html\" title=\"\">The Absolute Gravedigger<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Twisted Spoon, 2016: recipient of the PEN \/ Heim Translation Grant) and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/twistedspoon.com\/woman-in-plural.html\" title=\"\">Woman in the Plural<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Twisted Spoon, 2021); and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/the-visible-spectrum.com\/006\"><em>Paris Notebook<\/em><\/a><\/em>\u00a0by poet Tereza Riedlbauchov\u00e1\u00a0(Verse Chorus Press, 2020).\u00a0His scholarly study,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-77352-6\" title=\"\">The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism<\/a><\/em>, was published by Palgrave in 2021. He is a founding editor of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/bodyliterature.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B O D Y<\/a><\/em>. From 2020&#8211;2024 he served as the first Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephan Delbos is the author of the poetry chapbook\u00a0In Memory of Fire\u00a0(Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2016); and the poetry collections\u00a0Light Reading\u00a0(BlazeVOX, 2019);\u00a0Small Talk\u00a0(Dos Madres, 2021); and\u00a0Two Poems\u00a0(The Literary Salon, 2021). Two of his plays have been staged:\u00a0Chetty\u2019s Lullaby, about trumpeter Chet Baker, in San Francisco in 2014, and\u00a0Deaf Empire, about composer Bed\u0159ich Smetana, by Prague &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/index.php\/bio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who&#8217;s me?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stephan Delbos is the author of the poetry chapbook In Memory of Fire (Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2016); and the poetry collections Light Reading (BlazeVOX, 2019); Small Talk (Dos Madres, 2021); and Two Poems (The Literary Salon, 2021). 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