Publikacija SEP 2011 - Vilenica

Gregor Podlogar was born in 1974 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He obtained
a degree in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts at the University of
Ljubljana. He is a poet, a translator of contemporary American poetry
(C. Hawkey, L. Solomon, P. Killebrew, A. Berrigan a.o.), a radio editor
at the editorial department for literature at Radio Slovenija, and editor
of the Slovenian sites of the international internet poetry platform at
lyrikline.org. He publishes his poems in various literary magazines in
Slovenia and abroad. The Aleph Press publishing house published his
first two collections of poetry, Naselitve (States, 1997) and Vrtoglavica
zanosa (Joy in Vertigo, 2002). Together with poet Primož Čučnik and
painter Žiga Kariž he contributed to an experimental book on New York
City entitled Oda na manhatenski aveniji (Ode on Manhattan Avenue,
2003), which was published by the Sherpa Press publishing house and
followed by his next collection Milijon sekund bliže (A Million Seconds
Closer, 2006). His latest book, Vesela nova ušesa (Happy New Ears, 2010),
was also published by Sherpa Press. A selection of his work was published
in the bilingual anthology Six Slovenian Poets (2006). In addition
to his poetic endeavours, he occasionally performs as a DJ and enjoys
settling down with a nice cup of green tea in Ljubljana.
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