European Voices makes no attempt to represent the poetries of Europe today—how could it?—but gathers material that has come to us over a period of a year or so. Some 17 languages are represented, of Eastern, Central, Western, Southern and Northern Europe. On display are translations ranging from Classical Greek to quite recent poetry, as well as re-translations of major European poets (Goethe, Verlaine, Pasternak, Montale…).
 
The present issue also contains a feature on the American poet, teacher, historian, translator Peter Viereck. In his eighties, Viereck has always lived in that larger world of literature. The actual location of the writer is less important than a continuing commitment to language as such. Joseph Brodsky, who was a close friend of Viereck, once remarked that wherever he was, Leningrad, New York, South Hadley, Mass., the gesture he made as he reached for a dictionary was the same.