Csenger Kertai (1995) is a Hungarian poet and the author of two poetry collections, Mindig kivirágzik (Budapest: Napkút Kiadó, 2019) and Hogy nekem jó legyen (Budapest: Napkút Kiadó, 2021). In 2021 he graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest with a degree in Hungarian literature and aesthetics. Five poems from his second collection have been set to music and song by Hungarian musicians; eight of his poems, in Diana Senechal's English translation, have been published in Literary Imagination, Asymptote, Literary Matters, and Modern Poetry in Translation.
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