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About Gueorgui Konstantinov

Award-winning Bulgarian poet Gueorgui Konstantinov graduated from the University of Sofia in 1967 and has been employed as an editor for Bulgarian television and Rodna Rech Literary Magazine, and as director of the publishing house Plamak. Formerly the President of the Bulgarian Center of P.E.N. International, he has also served Bulgaria as a Member of Parliament in the Fourth Great National Assembly, and as Deputy Minister of Culture. The author of thirty-five books of poetry, his poems have been widely anthologized and translated into a dozen languages. He has participated in many literary festivals worldwide, and currently lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. His website (in English) is slovo.bg/old/f/en/gk/.

Love, Unforseen Poetry, and Other Radical Reforms: An interview with the Bulgarian poet Gueorgui Konstantinov

Bill Wolak and Gueorgui Konstantinov

Gueorgui Konstantinov interview and poems

Born in Pleven, Bulgaria, in 1943, Gueorgui Konstantinov graduated from the University of Sofia majoring in Bulgarian Philology in 1967. Since then, he has been employed as an Editor in the Literary … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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