Alfred Corn has published eleven books of poems, two novels, and three collections of critical essays. He has received the Guggenheim fellowship, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, the University of Cincinnati, and UCLA. In 2013, he was made a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2016, Chamán Ediciones in Spain published Rocinante, a selection of his work translated into Spanish, the same translation appearing the following year in Mexico under the title Antonio en el desierto. He has published translations from classical Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. His own poems have also been translated into Italian, French, German, and Turkish. In October of 2016, Roads Taken, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Alfred Corn's first book, All Roads at Once, was held at Poets House in New York City, and in 2017 he was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Last year he published a new version Rilke's Duino Elegies. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
