Gregory Woods

On Friday 27 November 2009 I was in Ljubljana for the launch of Brane Mozetic's spectacularly wide-ranging Slovene-language anthology of European gay men's poetry, Moral bi spet priti: sodobna europska geyevska poezija, which contains work by 77 poets from more nations than I can count. Mozetic, who is himself a powerful poet (A Midsummer Night's Press in New York City publishes an English translation of his collection, Banalities) runs not only the very impressive gay and lesbian publishing house Lambda, but also the Ljubljana Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the launch of which we attended on Saturday 28 November.

At the launch of the anthology, I was delighted to read alongside Franco Buffoni, Matyas Dunajcsik, Niels Frank, Markus Hediger, Michael Roes, Lawrence Schimel, Brane Mozetic himself, and our various translators. (My poems had been rendered into Slovene by the poet Milan Selj.) I was also interviewed for the lesbian and gay magazine Narobe by Andrej Zavrl.

Half of Andrej's interview with me is available here: http://www.narobe.si/myblog/pogovor-z-gregoryjem-woodsom . The other half is at: http://narobe.si/narobe-12/pogovor-gregory-woods .