James Pfeiffer, poet and former Accents intern, reads “This poem is dedicated to” by Rossen Karamfilov, translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. This poem can be found in The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry. This video is from the book’s release at the Morris book shop in Lexington, Kentucky.

Rossen Karamfilov was born on November 20th, 1992 in Sofia. He is the author of two poetry collections—The Eagle and the Child (2011) and Stereo Silence, which was released in 2013. Rossen currently lives in Plovdiv, where he is studying applied linguistics (German and English) at Paisii Hilendarski University.