Stonecipher, Donna

Donna Stonecipher © John Nijenhuis

Donna Stonecipher, born in 1969 in Seattle, USA, has published five poetry collections, most recently Transaction Histories (2018), named one of the 10 best poetry books of 2018 by The New York Times. Her prose book Prose Poetry and the City was published in 2018. She has received numerous work and residency grants, including a working fellowship from the Berlin Senate. Her translation of Friederike Mayröcker’s études, for which she won an advancement award from the National Endowment for the Arts, was published in 2020.

Festival Content

POETS‘ CORNER Treptow-Köpenick – Poetry in the Districts

The warm-up before the start of the 23rd poesiefestival berlin! Poets’ Corner takes over the city with poetry! Berlin-based poets and musicians will read and perform across the city’s districts in libraries, gardens, and cultural centers, thanks to support of Berlin’s city districts and cultural institutions. There’s room for poetry everywhere!

Küchenmeister, Nadja • Pogačar, Marko • Prabala-Joslin, Avrina • Rasheed, Mariam • Stonecipher, Donna • Insomnia Brass Band • Sandig, Ulrike Almut