JD Pluecker
@jdpluecker
language/matter movements ~ translates, writes, teaches, makes things in space & time ~ pronouns: she/they ~ names: J*hn - JD - Jadine (o sea Yeidi(n))
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New poem I translated for Poem-A-Day on Academy of American Poets by Sara Uribe: "Let’s say the body needs to remain quiet to say something about distances. Something left undone, you clarify." With a translator's note/poem masquerading as an "About this Poem" poets.org/poem/speech-bo…
"From Fannie Lou Hamer in 1964 to the Uncommitted National Movement 🌺 in 2024, it is clear that the testimony of witness unsettles power. What were the 2024 Democratic National Convention afraid of hearing?" -Willow Naomi Curry 🇵🇸🍉 on "Testifying at the Democratic National Convention" in Massachusetts Review massreview.org/node/12135
“Let’s say a note and a translation arrive together, as one entity. Because readings shift on the void, the collapse. Say the impossibility of saying what she meant to say.” ––JD Pluecker JD Pluecker #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/speech-bo…
A lovely reading by Megan Milks Megan Milks of My Lesbian Novel, Reneé Gladman's forthcoming book from Dorothy, a publishing project. Excited to read this novel. 4columns.org//milks-megan/m…
"Instead of Craft, I think about work. The work that we, writers, are doing now as we try to attend to the violent world [...] What are the words and the forms with which to do and say and make what we need to live in, now?" - Ordinary Notes yalereview.org/article/christ…