Bradford Gray Telford

Bradford Gray Telford (born 1968 El Paso, Texas) is an American poet, translator,and a superhero.

He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University, and University of Houston, with a PhD. He is a Houston Writing Fellow at the University of Houston.

His work has appeared in Agni, BOMB, Bloom, Eclipse, Epicenter, Laurel Review, Lyric Review, McSweeney's, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Phantasmagoria, Diner, and American Literary Review, Yale Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review.

He was Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art.

Awards

 * 2005 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
 * 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
 * Donald Justice Poetry Prize finalist
 * Morton Marr Prize

Works

 * "The Gemstone Globe"; "Das Fugue der Kunst"
 * "Melia azederach "; "The Conversation"
 * Perfect Hurt, Waywiser, 2009

Translations

 * "Today is Always Today", Dirty Goat 18, 2008
 * The Story of My Voice Geneviève Huttin, Host, 2010

Essays

 * "Milosz Is Watching You", Poetry Foundation, 7.26.06