Mark Eisner has spent most of the past two decades working on projects related to Pablo Neruda. He conceived, edited, and was one of the principal translators for The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (City Lights, 2004). He wrote the introduction to City Lights’ first ever English translation of Neruda’s venture of the infinite man, a project he developed. He is producing a documentary film on Neruda, with support from Latino Public Broadcasting. An initial version, narrated by Isabel Allende, won the Latin American Studies Association Award of Merit in Film. Mark was also involved in the early stages of the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, and continues to lead Red Poppy, a literary non-profit focused on Latin American poetry. Their anthology RESISTENCIA: Poems of Protest and Revolution was published by Tin House Books on September 15, 2020. He is now at work on a new book about the life and work of revolutionary photographer Tina Modotti in 1920’s Mexico.