I’ll be sleeping but please join — tonight, 19h Eastern! Registration is free at the link. 👩🏻‍🎨 📚 🖊️ 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🕊️

I still can’t entirely believe David Burr Gerrard is gone. Please consider donating to this fund to support David’s family: gofundme.com/f/help-support…

Dear lovely community, We wanted to write to you to thank you for your ongoing love and support in this time of great need and such immensity. We want to thank you all for helping us to meet the £80,000 target we set. We've now extended our target. gofundme.com/f/gboyega-odub…

What’s left of blue is woven dark in iron lines —César Vallejo, translated by Yvette Siegert poets.org/poem/under-pop…

As my employer - Columbia University University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

🥹🥰 My heart, gratitude, & alumna solidarity with these students who are resisting outrageous, unprecedented, & violent intimidation from Columbia University while creating a better society on lawns designed for such gathering & inquiry. #CielitoLindo #Gaza #GazaSolidarityEncampment

“...he walked right past without saying hello, went up the stairs, reached the room at the far end of the house, collapsed on the bed, and slipped into a coma.” Read from Luis Fernando Vallejo Rendón’s novel The Abyss, translated by Yvette Siegert 🦜. lithub.com/the-abyss/

See the 10 books nominated for the 2024 @NationalBook Award for Translated Literature. nyer.cm/S50OjUW

Prize lists are always incomplete, and the longlist for this year’s National Book Award is very much not an exception to that rule. Lots of books I love didn’t make it, but I hope readers will be able to connect with some of the great ones that did. nationalbook.org/2024-national-…

I’ve been offline and therefore utterly stunned to be on this longlist for the National Book Award, for my translation of Fernando Vallejo’s masterpiece, THE ABYSS, a project ten years in the works that has woven through a complex trajectory of my life. Grateful.

Congratulations to Solvej Balle and Barbara J. Haveland, and Fernando Vallejo and Yvette Siegert (Yvette Siegert 🦜). We're very excite to see ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME Book I and THE ABYSS on this year's NBA longlist.

Brava!!! Yvette Siegert long listed for the National Book Award for her translation of Fernando Vallejo’s The Abyss.

How to read everything? Still pinching myself that my New Directions book about a bellicose grammarian is on this National Book Foundation list. As Tom Hulce's spellbound Wolfie says, when sampling hair-metal wigs in Amadeus: 'They’re all so beautiful. Why don’t I have 3 heads?' Or 30.

"leaves are more than syllables" Linda Pastan:

Proud & agradecida to have contributed to this folio of Salvadoran women writers & translators, edited by Maryam Ivette Parhizkar & Óscar Moisés Díaz for FENCE, with my translations of the brilliant Jacinta Escudos Jacinta Escudos & the mighty Amada Libertad. fenceportal.org/six-women-writ…

Before, a poem by Amada Libertad, tr. Yvette Siegert 🦜: