They’ll Be Good for Seed: Anthology of Contemporary Hungarian Poetry, a Reading

Editor Gabor Gyukics presents readings from this ground-breaking anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry. They'll Be Good for Seed collects the diverse work of eight women and eight male poets with a wide range of subject matter and styles full of musicality, rhythm, and colorful images.

Gabor G Gyukics (b. 1958) jazz poet, literary translator born in Budapest. He is the author of 9 books of original poetry, and 11 books of translations including A Transparent Lion: Selected Poetry of Attila József and Swimming in the Ground: Contemporary Hungarian Poetry (in English, both with co-translator Michael Castro) and an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian titled Medvefelhő a város felett.

Michael Castro (1945-2018) was a native of New York City who lived in St. Louis for most of his adult life. He was a poet and translator. He published ten collections of his own poetry, most recently We Need to Talk: New & Selected Poems, as well as the literary history, Interpreting the Indian: Twentieth Century Poets and the Native American. Castro was the co-founder of River Styx, a community based literary organization that has produced River Styx Magazine and readings in St. Louis since 1975, as well as a long running radio program, Poetry Beat.