Pierre Joris (1946–2025) was a Luxembourg‑American poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist who published over eighty books across genres, including more than forty volumes of poetry. His recent titles include Interglacial Narrows: Poems 2015–2021 (Contra Mundum Press, 2023) and Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In‑between Mersch & Elsewhere (Contra Mundum Press, 2022), co-authored with Florent Toniello. Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000–2024 is the companion volume to Poasis: Selected Poems 1986–1999 (Wesleyan University Press, 2001).

Joris often referred to his practice as Nomadic Poetics, and wrote extensively about it in essays; his form of writing resists fixed forms, seeking unfamiliar, open structures not following the conventional idea of “the poem” or the traditional notion of the book. Also internationally recognized for his translations of Paul Celan, Adonis, Safaa Fathy, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Maurice Blanchot, and others, Joris always foregrounded his identity as a poet. His translation work was a natural extension of his poetic practice—a crossing of languages and sensibilities that deepened the range and resonance of his own writing. In 2020, he received the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and Luxembourg’s Batty Weber Lifetime Literary Achievement Prize.

With Jerome Rothenberg, he co‑edited the first two volumes of Poems for the Millennium and the fourth with Habib Tengour (University of California Press). His collaboration with artist‑performer Nicole Peyrafitte produced Domopoetics, a multimedia fusion of poetry, sound, performance, and visual art exhibited at La Galerie Simoncini in Luxembourg in 2017 & 2021. Pierre Joris completed the selection for Poasis II before his passing on February 26, 2025, in Brooklyn, New York.