Idra Novey

Idra Novey is the author of Exit, Civilian, a 2011 National Poetry Series selection, and The Next Country, a finalist for the Foreword Book of the Year Award in poetry.

She has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, Poets & Writers Magazine, and the PEN Translation Fund.

Her recent translations include Clarice Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. She’s taught in the Bard College Prison Initiative, at NYU, and in Columbia University’s School of the Arts.


Articles by Idra Novey

World Voices Festival
Wednesday April 23

On Public Lives/Private Lives

Pausing Outside a House   Santiago, Chile 2005 Here, where a ruin longs to be a house, and a house to be left to ruin.                                    Where men blindfolded students and pushed them down the basement stairs.  The house almost tips with its history, with a wish to be simply walls  and pillars and patio— so