Leo Yankevich (30 October 1961 – 11 December 2018)[citation needed] was an American poet and the editor of The New Formalist.
Later that year he traveled to Poland on a fellowship from the Kosciuszko Foundation to attend Kraków's Jagiellonian University.
[citation needed] After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, he decided to settle permanently in Poland.
He was a prolific translator, having rendered into English poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanisław Grochowiak, Czesław Miłosz, Alexander Blok, Leopold Staff, Nikolay Gumilev, Bolesław Leśmian, and many others.
He has a large internet presence with work published in scores of online publications, ranging from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette[2] to Poets Against War.