The Associated Press has reported that Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the Dutch poet appointed by the Dutch publisher Meulenhoff to translate Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” and her first poetry collection into Dutch, has stepped down after criticism that a white author was selected for the task. Rijneveld, who in 2020 became the youngest author … Continue reading Everything you need to know about the controversy over a new translation of Amanda Gorman’s poetry.