Arthur Sze is the twenty-fifth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of Transient Worlds—a collection of global poetry in translation—published by Copper Canyon Press in association with the Library of Congress. As Poet Laureate, he foregrounds the power of translation to deepen our engagement with poetry and with each other’s shared humanity.

A recipient of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement, 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize among other honors, Sze has authored twelve books of poetry, including Into the Hush (2025); The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (2021), selected for a 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Prize; Sight Lines (2019), the recipient of the National Book Award; Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and Archipelago (1995), selected for an American Book Award. A celebrated translator and editor, Sze is also the author The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry (2024) and the editor of Chinese Writers on Writing (2010). Most recently, he published The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems with the Museum of New Mexico Press. His own poetry has been translated into fifteen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Sze was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, where he currently resides with his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw.