In this special issue, Two Lines celebrates its 25th anniversary, dedicating itself to revisiting old friends and exploring the future of translation. A collection of specially commissioned essays thinks through what the world of literary translation will look like in the future. There are also exclusive versions of recently discovered Inger Christensen sonnets from two of Danish's best translators, as well as all of the great world literature you've come to expect from Two Lines. With its 30th issue Two Lines celebrates in style as it gears up for another 25 years of serving feasts to globally minded readers.
CJ Evans is the author of A Penance, forthcoming from New Issues Press in October, and The Category of Outcast, selected by Terrance Hayes for the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets chapbook series. He co-edited, with Brenda Shaughnessy, Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House, and his work has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is editor of Two Lines Press, which publishes contemporary international literature in translation, and a contributing editor for Tin House. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, daughter, and three-legged cat.