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# Stephan Delbos

Writer | Translator | Editor

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## Posts

- [Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/2020/03/27/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/) - Stephan Delbos is the first Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- [Small Talk: Poems](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/2021/03/14/small-talk/) - Small Talk (2021) is the second poetry collection by Plymouth Poet Laureate Stephan Delbos. Published by Dos Madres Press.

## Pages

- [Creative Writing](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/creative-writing-2/)
- [Who's me?](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/bio/) - 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). Two of his plays have been staged: Chetty’s Lullaby, about trumpeter Chet Baker, in San Francisco in 2014, and Deaf Empire, about composer Bedřich Smetana, by Prague
- [CapeCodCan Workshops](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/capecodcan-workshops/) - I've been lucky enough to host several workshops each year with the Cape Cod Collaborative Arts Network and Truro Center for the Arts. These workshops have been fun and fulfilling. The students are incredibly talented and we always have a lot of fun.
- [Poetry & Art in Truro](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/poetry-art-in-truro/) - In the spring of 2022 I hosted online poetry workshops with local students through the Cape Cod Collaborative Arts Network and the Truro Center for the Arts. A selection of these poems was then featured alongside art during an exhibition at the Truro Center for the Arts. The poems were lovely and fit perfectly alongside
- [Postal Poetry Project](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/postal-poetry-project/) - In April, 2020, I sent 60 poems in the mail to local businesses and residents in Plymouth--two for every day in National Poetry Month. The response was phenomenal: local businesses were thrilled to have this support and thoughtful connection during the difficult period of the pandemic. I also heard from many local residents who were
- [Plymouth Poetry Showcases](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/plymouth-poetry-showcases/) - In the summer of 2021 and 2022 I hosted live poetry readings in downtown Plymouth, featuring a wide array of local and regional poets. In 2021 we read outdoors at the beautiful Brewster Gardens on the waterfront. In 2022 we read inside at the stunning Pilgrim Meeting House near Burial Hill. Both events were well
- [Book Donations](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/book-donations/) - At the beginning of 2021 I donated nearly a dozen of my own books of poetry and translation to the Little Libraries throughout Plymouth. Happy to support this great project!
- [Poetry Out Loud](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/poetry-out-loud/) - I've been lucky enough to participate as a judge for the Poetry Out Loud competitions at Plymouth North and South High Schools in January 2022 and 2023. I was amazed at the talents of these local students and their skill at poetry recitation. The winner of the competition has the chance to compete on the
- [Correspondence Poems w/ Plymouth, UK](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/correspondence-poems-w-plymouth-uk/) - To help celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Plymouth in 1620, I corresponded through poetry with Thom Boulton, the Poet Laureate of Plymouth, UK. Throughout the year we sent poems back and forth to one another and published them online. Press coverage https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/old-colony-memorial/2020/08/04/poets-laureate-of-two-plymouths-share-thoughts-in-verse/114615154/
- [Community Art Collaborative](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/community-art-collaborative/) - I was lucky to get to collaborate with Community Art Collaborative on two projects in 2021: Perseverance, and In This Together. Both projects combined poetry and visual art in outdoor installations. In This Together engaged with the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital staff who had worked through Covid. The installation stood in front of the hospital,
- [Plymouth Poetry Contest](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/plymouth-poetry-contest/) - The Plymouth Poetry Contest took place in 2020, with poets asked to submit poems about Plymouth, historic or contemporary, in any form or style. The poems chosen as winners were printed in a limited-edition series by Kat LiBretto at Inky Hands Print Studio & Gallery in downtown Plymouth, where we hosted a reading and had
- [Dedication: White Horse Beach Accessibility Path](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/dedication-white-horse-beach-accessibility-path/) - I was happy to work with the Plymouth Disabilities Commission on a poem presented at the dedication for the accessibility path on White Horse beach in the summer of 2022. Press coverage: "Mobi-Mat in Plymouth changed the White Horse Beach experience for those with disabilities" DEDICATION: WHITE HORSE BEACH ACCESSIBILITY PATH We who knowThe sea’s
- [Press](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/interviews/) - Interview with Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics StAnza, Scotland's Poetry Festival Plymouth Poet Laureate Announcement Inaugural Plymouth Poet Laureate Poem The Bibliofile, 2018 My Writing Day, 2018 In Czech: Revue Prostor, 2019.
- [Commonwealth of Poetry](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/commonwealth-of-poetry/) - Commonwealth of Poetry is an intergenerational poetry project with Plymouth Public Schools and the Center for Active Living during the spring of 2022 and 2023. A series of poetry writing workshops bringing local students together with CAL members, the project culminated with a public poetry reading, allowing participants to share their own poetry onstage. This
- [Laureate Poems for New Year, 2022, 2023](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/laureate-poems-for-plymouths-new-year-2023/) - 2023 TURNING THE YEAR Lights on the tree, Stars in the air, Days in the year When we can see Past and future Now more clearly, Still being here. There goes the sun, Here comes the moon. Let’s hum a tune ’til we are none. There goes the moon, Here comes the sun. How near
- [Raining Poetry](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/raining-poetry/)
- [The Absolute Gravedigger](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/translations/the-absolute-gravedigger/) - (buy the book) "Nezval’s translators have done an excellent job of embodying in English the slippery act of cobbling together what can never entirely cohere—a self." --Aditi Machado, Asymptote About the book Translated by Stephan Delbos and Tereza Novická The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Vítězslav Nezval’s work
- [Woman in the Plural](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/translations/woman-in-the-plural/) - (buy the book) "A snapshot of the European avant garde when everything was up for grabs." — Steve Hanson, Manchester Review of Books About the book Translated by Stephan Delbos and Tereza Novická In the summer of 1935, Vítězslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his generation, embarked on a period
- [From a Terrace in Prague](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/literary-criticism/from-a-terrace-in-prague/) - (buy the book) “A beautiful and fulfilling anthology… Poems such as Roque Dalton’s ‘Tavern’ and many others just sing and inspire.” —Ed Sanders Prague has been the central, if unlikely, subject of some of the most important poetry of the last century. This diverse anthology gathers and translates into English 120 poems from 16 languages
- [Paris Notebook](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/translations/paris-notebook/) - (buy the book) "These poems are pleasingly, vigorously on the move. The book draws on the European traditions of absurdism and surrealism...And there are deep feelings and struggles contained here, though often expressed with a lightness of touch." — Charlotte Wetton, Modern Poetry in Translation About the book By Tereza Riedlbauchová Translated from the Czech by
- [Writing About Writing](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/literary-criticism/) - The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism (2021) From a Terrace in Prague (2011)
- [Translations](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/translations/) - The Absolute Gravedigger (2016; recipient of the PEN / Heim Translation Grant) Woman in the Plural (2021) Paris Notebook (2020)
- [The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/literary-criticism/the-new-american-poetry-and-cold-war-nationalism/) - (buy the book) "Delbos’s robust critique of Donald Allen’s anthology as a product of cold war US nationalism is compelling... Critics and poets, students and scholars will find this book to be essential for understanding poetry’s past, present, and future." --W. Scott Howard, University of Denver This book examines Donald M. Allen’s crucially influential poetry
- [Light Reading](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poetry/sample-page/) - (buy the book) "The titles of the minimalist poems appear at the bottom of the page; it means a slowed-down knowing and an after-the-fact awareness... a playful inversion. Delbos draws inspiration from Chopin, Philip Glass, Václav Havel, and pulls from disparate influences and reference points, from the Sex Pistols to Homer to Micro Machines. The result
- [Two Poems / Dvě poémy](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poetry/two-poems-dve-poemy/) - (buy the book) "Delbos defies both baroque grandeur and gaudy ornamentation. At the same time, he has a distinct ability for unique poetic expression... He explores a transcendental quality of being, but manifested in interpersonal relationships." --Milena Fucimanová, Tvar Two Poems / Dvě poémy A bilingual edition in English and Czech Translated by Tereza Riedlbauchová
- [Small Talk: Poems](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poetry/bio/) - (buy the book) "Elegant and intimate... Delbos proves his deep attunement to the natural, and to bright blasts of language." --Nina MacLaughlin, The Boston Globe Reviews: "In his elegant and intimate new collection of poetry, Small Talk (Dos Madres), poet and translator Stephan Delbos, first poet laureate of Plymouth, lands us into the lights of
- [Poetry](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poetry/) - Small Talk (2021) Two Poems (2021) Light Reading (2019) In Memory of Fire (2017)
- [Poet Laureate of Plymouth, MA.](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poet-laureate-of-plymouth-ma/) - The Plymouth Poetry Forum. Read an interview at Mass Poetry. Press coverage: My Inaugural Poem (Old Colony Memorial) The Plymouth Poet Laureate (Boston Globe) Plymouth Poetry Contest (Patriot Ledger) Please follow me on Twitter and Instagram, and contact me by email.
- [Plays](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/plays/) - Chetty's Lullaby (2014) Deaf Empire (2016)
- [In Memory of Fire](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/poetry/in-memory-of-fire/) - Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2017 40 pages “In Memory of Fire presents a speaker on the verge of disaster. In Delbos’ poems, themes of destruction, loss, and the city intertwine in a complex play of language. Desolation and grief are handled with subtlety and sophistication. While music and biblical imagery present fresh, surprising motifs throughout this
- [Deaf Empire](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/plays/deaf-empire/) - Deaf Empire was produced by The Prague Shakeapeare Company at Prague's Kolowrat Theatre in March, 2017. “One of the company's best productions... Deaf Empire showed what a production about a musician’s life should be." —The Lennon Wall Nationalism, art, revolution and what it means to be Czech are questions that burn through Prague society in the
- [Chetty's Lullaby](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/plays/chettys-lullaby/) - Chetty's Lullaby ran for 8 performances at Viracocha SF in 2013, on Valencia Avenue, in San Francisco's Mission District, and then debuted at StageWerx in January, 2014. “Chetty’s Lullaby” brings the tragic downfall of the legendary trumpet player Chet Baker to life and with it the tumultuous Milan jazz scene of the late 1950s. Based on
- [Contact](https://www.stephandelbos.com/index.php/contact/) - Email Plymouth Poetry Forum Twitter Instagram

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