The 2020 WWB Poems in Translation Contest spotlights groundbreaking work by poets and translators around the world. Submissions will be accepted from April 9, 2020, through midnight June 1, 2020

The contest is open to submissions of contemporary international poetry translated from other languages into English. Four winning poems will be co-published in Words Without Borders and Poem-a-Day, the popular daily poetry series produced by the Academy of American Poets, throughout September, which is National Translation Month. The winning poems will be selected by Pushcart Prize-winning poet David Tomas Martinez, along with the editors of Words Without Borders.