John Menaghan reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

John Menaghans first book of poems,"All the Money in the World," appeared in 1999 from Salmon Poetry. His second book, "She Alone," a book-length sequence tracing an imaginary woman's journey from birth to death and beyond appeared, also from Salmon, in April 2006. His third book What Vanishes (Salmon Poetry) has just been published.

 

He has won awards for his poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize. In addition, he has translated poems by Baudelaire,Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Valéry and published a number of these translations.He has read his work all across across the U.S.from New York to Honolulu as well as in Ireland and Hungary.

 

He is now a full professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and both founder and Director of both an Irish Studies and a Summer in Ireland program there.