Jerome Rothenberg, a poet, translator and anthologist whose efforts to bring English-language readers into contact with creative traditions far outside the Western establishment — a field he called ethnopoetics — had an enormous impact on world literature, died on April 21 at his home in Encinitas, CA. He was 92.

By ethnopoetics, Mr. Rothenberg meant poetry from indigenous and other non-Western cultures, including Jewish mysticism, American Indian, Dada, and a range of poetries from Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania, introducing readers to ancient Egyptian coronation events, Comanche peyote songs, and Gabonese death rites.

He taught at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and SUNY Binghamton, but spent most of his career at the University of California, San Diego. He published several books of his own poems, translated others, and presented staged readings. At his death, two titles had been accepted for publication, one of them “In the Shadow of a Mad King,” a recording of Mr. Rothenberg’s poems about Donald Trump.