"It’s kind of depressing to think that my soul could be glimpsed via bubbles filled in with a no. 2 pencil." #translator Johanna Bishop on the results of an eighth grade vocational test that proved prophetic for our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12077

Thank you to Massachusetts Review for the space to write about the "connection between the racial capitalist, material extraction of the Caribbean by the Global North, and the extraction of Caribbean thought by white Westerners and Global North scholars". massreview.org/node/12119

New workshop with cleo qian author of LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO! In “Parallel Infinities,” participants will look at two short stories, one by Robert Bolaño and one by Haruki Murakami, in which the main narrative is interrupted or usurped by another narrative (cont.) ⬇️

Tin House Her writing has been published in over twenty outlets including The Sun, ZYZZYVA Massachusetts Review Shenandoah, Pleiades and The long read at the Guardian, and was a winner of the 2022 Zoetrope Short Fiction Contest

"It is ludicrous that keynote speakers for a party campaigning on freedom and democracy would be silent about the genocide in Gaza." Interlink Publishing's Michel Moushabeck on the silencing of Gaza: massreview.org/node/12129

"I expect you would be surprised that your death affected me so much, that I spoke at two services for you, that I am writing about you now." An epistolary post from Sejal Shah to Jim Foley: massreview.org/node/12131

"More than one place, real or imagined, what influences me is a constant sense of dislocation." #Writer Sabina Murray discusses the influences behind her work and more in our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12083

Do you know any young authors eager to sharpen their creative writing skills? Woven Word Young Writers Workshops will host afternoon workshops in Hadley, MA for teen writers beginning in September. Register online: wovenwordyoungwriters.com.

For #LaborDay, re-upping this clarion call from Sex Workers’ Union, published in Massachusetts Review ten months ago. "We call upon our fellow trade unions to heed the call of Palestinian trade unions... As workers, united, we must take action for the liberation of all oppressed peoples."

"The expansion of US military bases in Africa through the AFRICOM program, alongside efforts to control energy and mineral resources in Sudan and Congo, are examples of what the most lethal fighting force in the world does." Anima Adjepong breaks it down: massreview.org/node/12133

"Each year I catalog hundreds of books [in a public library] that are literary translations. This got me wondering if I could do some translating myself." #Translator Nathalie Harty shares her journey into translation for our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12081

"Realizing that all I needed was a blank stage and from that, any dramatic idea could be portrayed fascinated me..." #Playwright Ifa Bayeza discusses Thorton Wilder’s influence on her style in our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12087

"Across the span of sixty years, it is clear that the testimony of witness and experience unsettles power and those who submit to it." Check out our latest post on Our America blog, ‘Testifying at the Democratic National Convention’ by Willow Naomi Curry 🇵🇸🔻

"It illuminates our powerlessness in negative space, but it also affirms the irreducible core of our freedom" -We share Public Affairs Editor, Shailja #FreePalestine Patel's poem 200 days after Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire. massreview.org/node/12137

"Hamer’s Southern Black vernacular, her size, and her deep blackness likely made the top guns of the Democratic Party rest even easier: who would really pay attention to her?" - Read Willow Naomi Curry 🇵🇸🇭🇹🔻 in Massachusetts Review on Hamer testifying at the DNC in 1964 massreview.org/node/12135

"I would love for my ashes to be scattered in a free Palestine." - Aaron Bushnell "A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people. Take the power back. Free Palestine." - Matt Nelson Read "Abecedarian for those who burn" on Massachusetts Review massreview.org/node/12137

The Massachusetts Review new issue features my translation of Basque writer Mónica Crespo's (Mónica Crespo) dark fairytale, "The Offering". This is the 3rd tale from "The Secret Mothers" to appear in English, #SeekingAPublisher. DM me. #Shortstory #translation massreview.org

“My mother / is the author of eight breasts. / None of my sisters / have the philosopher’s taste / for martyrdom, the mechanic’s taste / for oil, the aerialist’s taste / for release from the dress of gravity.” —Bob Hicok, “The roots of geometry” Massachusetts Review Copper Canyon Press

Read Performance Editor Dominic Taylor's riveting new article in The Conversation on activism, art, and the late James Earl Jones: theconversation.com/what-james-ear…