Carsten René Nielsen
Born in 1966, Carsten René Nielsen is the author of nine books of poetry in Danish (1989-2008), including Cirkler (Circles, 1998), Clairobscur (Clairobscur, 2001), Enogfyrre dyr (Forty-One Animals, 2005) and Husundersřgelser (House Inspections, 2008).
His selected prose poems, The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors, was published in English by New Issues Poetry and Prose in 2007 and his most recent collection of prose poems, House Inspections, by BOA Editions in November 2011, both translated by American poet David Keplinger. His poetry has been featured in magazines in Italy, Germany, Canada and the United States. He has been awarded the Michael Strunge Poetry Prize and has won several fellowships from the Danish State Foundation for the Arts.
Nielsen lives in Aarhus, the second largest city of Denmark (situated on the peninsula of Jutland).
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Poems by Carsten René Nielsen in English translation (by David Keplinger) have appeared in:
Mid-American Review (Volume XXII, no. 2, 2002, USA)
Agni (No. 55, 2002, USA)
Exile – The Literary Quarterly (Vol. 26, no. 4, 2002, Canada)
Exquisite Corpse (No. 13, Winter 2003, USA)
Circumference (Summer/Autumn 2004, USA)
Parthenon West Review (Issue Four, 2006, USA)
Mississippi Review (Volume 13, no. 1, Winter 2007, USA)
Two Lines: World Writing in Translation (XIV, 2007, USA)
The Eleventh Muse (2007, USA)
Café Irreal (Issue Twenty-Seven, 2008, USA)
The Paris Review (no. 191, 2009)
Anti (August 2010)
Copper Nickel (no. 14, 2010, USA)
