Hans-Michael Speier

A member of the PEN Club, Hans-Michael Speier is a poet, translator, and literary scholar living in Berlin. He taught at Dartmouth as the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor (in the Spring of 2008), as well as at a variety of other institutions: the Free University of Berlin, Leipzig University, the University of Cincinnati, and Middlebury College. In addition to having published a number of anthologies and translated modern English, French, and Italian poetry, he is the founding editor of Park. Zeitschrift für neue Literatur and the Paul-Celan-Jahrbuch. His own lyric poetry has appeared in eight volumes and over 30 anthologies and has been translated into seven languages. In 2007 he received the Schiller Award.

A list of his publications includes:
  Traumschaum (Gedichte), Berlin 1978
  Die Ästhetik Jean Pauls in der Dichtung des deutschen Symbolismus, Frankfurt/M. 1979
  Kaum U... (Gedichte), Krefeld 1981
  En un lieu toujours autre (Gedichte), Paris 1983
  Eisgang (Gedichte, mit Zeichungen von Christa v. Baum), Krefeld 1986
  Im Übersetzen leben, Tübingen 1986
  Berlin! Berlin! Lyrik-Anthologie (Reclam), Stuttgart 1987
  Poesie der Metropole, Berlin 1990
  Die Akribie der Zärtlichkeit (Gedichte), Potsdam 1995
  Berlin mit deinen frechen Feuern (Anthologie), 1997
  Mitlesebuch (Gedichte), Berlin 1998
  Interpretationen von Gedichten Paul Celans (Reclam), Stuttgart 2002
  scherbenschnitte (Gedichte), Berlin 1999
  wüste pfade (Gedichte), Berlin 2004
  welt/raum/reisen (Gedichte), Berlin 2007