The L Notebook

Sabine Macher was raised in Germany and moved to Paris in 1976, where she has lived since. She has made a career in dance and theater, working with companies throughout France. She has published 11 books of poetry with editors such as Maeght, Seghers, and Théâtre Typographique, and has worked extensively in soundscapes and sound installation. Her recent piece on Raymond Roussel's first novel La Doublure was featured this spring in a show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Eleni Sikelianos is an American poet and translator; she has published six books of poetry, a memoir, and an earlier translation—Jacques Roubaud's Exchanges on Light (La Presse, 2010). She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece, and a Seeger Fellowship at Princeton, and she has won the National Poetry Series, a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, and a New York Council for the Arts Translation Award. She lives in Boulder, Colorado and teaches at the University of Denver.