Henk Rossouw

Originally from South Africa, Henk Rossouw's book-length poem Xamissa—out from Fordham University Press in Fall 2018—won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize. Best American Experimental Writing 2018 (Wesleyan University Press) features an excerpt. Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor in the University of Houston's Honors College.

Border Lyrics

In daring new translations of Uljana Wolf’s Subsisters and Wilson Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea, linguistic playfulness and political acuity overlap in breathtaking ways.

  • Henk Rossouw

On the Poetry of Institutional Violence

The anonymous collective BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP transmutes voices from the archive into lyric form.

  • Henk Rossouw

Sonnet for My Son

  • Henk Rossouw
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