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Stephan Delbos, the first Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is a poet, playwright, translator, scholar and editor. Born and raised in downtown Plymouth, Delbos attended Boston College High School and studied literature at Providence College. He earned his MFA in Poetry from New England College and his doctorate at Charles University.

Delbos has published several volumes of poetry, including the chapbook In Memory of Fire (Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2016), and the poetry collections Light Reading (BlazeVOX, 2018) and Small Talk (Dos Madres, 2021).

In 2015 his co-translation of The Absolute Gravedigger, by Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval, was awarded the Heim Translation Grant, and was subsequently published by Twisted Spoon Press. Delbos is also co-translator of Nezval’s Woman in the Plural (Twisted Spoon Press, 2021), and the translator of Tereza Riedlbauchová’s Paris Notebook (The Visible Spectrum, 2020).

Delbos' plays, Chetty's Lullaby, about Chet Baker, and Deaf Empire, about Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, have been performed in Prague and San Francisco.

Writing extensively on contemporary and 20th century poetry, nationalism in poetry, and poetry in translation, Delbos is a founding editor of the online literary journal B O D Y and a frequent participant at academic conferences and international poetry festivals.

Delbos was selected as Poet Laureate in 2020.

Poetry

 * Small Talk (Dos Madres, 2021)
 * Light Reading (BlazeVOX, 2019)
 * In Memory of Fire (Cape Cod Poetry Review, 2017)

Translation

 * Woman in the Plural (Twisted Spoon, 2021)
 * Paris Notebook (The Visible Spectrum, 2020)
 * The Absolute Gravedigger (Twisted Spoon Press, 2016)

Critical Writing

 * The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism (Palgrave, 2021)
 * Anthology
 * From a Terrace in Prague (Litteraria Pragensia, 2011)

Writing for the stage

 * Deaf Empire (Prague Shakespeare Company, 2017)
 * Chetty's Lullaby (StageWerx San Franciso, 2013)