Sibelan Forrester

Host, Mad Poets First Wednesdays

Sibelan Forrester has been hosting the MPS First Wednesday reading since 2016 and loves the chance to hear new poets and meet old friends at the readings. She has won an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, published poems and prose in various local and distant journals, and has one book of poetry, Second Hand Fates. She has translated poetry from Croatian, Russian and Serbian, and her poems have been translated into Russian and Serbian, proving that it pays to hang out with translators as well as to be one. Sibelan lives in Morton, PA, and in her day job teaches Russian language and literature at Swarthmore College.