Grateful for these words from pjoris on إبراهيم نصرالله’s PALESTINIAN, forthcoming from World Poetry Books

Chaos, Crossing by Olivia Elias, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid (World Poetry 2022), currently short-listed for the Sarah Maguire Prize is featured on this literary roundup from Middle East Books and More middleeastbooks.com/collections/li…

I'll be out of town for this and I'm glad nick glastonbury is joining an excellent lineup to read from Judith Kiros's O, out in Sept in my translation from World Poetry Books !

From World Poetry Books & our #WITMonth list: ON CENTAURS & OTHER POEMS by Zuzanna Ginczanka, translated by Alex Braslavsky, “introduces the full scope of Ginzcanka’s poetic vision and prophetic voice to English-language readers for the first time.” worldpoetrybooks.com/books/on-centa…

It seems that archaeologists' work is needed to dig & extirpate from the strata of blood mud & dust the debris of the present & from these bits rebuild an abode open to tenderness Olivia Elias, Archaeology, tr. Kareem James Abu-Zeid World Poetry Books

Andaleeb Cartonera Handcrafts Editions of ‘Poems for Palestine’ Beautiful photos from this action in Madison, Wisconsin: publishersforpalestine.org/2024/08/21/and…

Joyce Mansour’s IN THE GLITTERING MAW, translated by C. Francis Fisher (World Poetry Books), is on our #WITMonth list! These poems give voice to a “sensuous, scandalous cry that has strained to be heard in the Anglophone world for over half a century.” worldpoetrybooks.com/books/in-the-g…

“Oppenheim’s poems read like her paintings & her paintings evoke her poetry. She summons imagery in words, but the writing is not illustrative even when correlations with her visual work are evident. As much as there are overlapping themes between verse & image, she kept them

Check out this great reading from the Flow Chart Foundation with World Poetry translator Kathleen Heil and other brilliant translators, on the challenges of poetry translation plus a poetry reading in 4 languages. RSVP here for this Sunday, 9/8. eventbrite.com/e/le-livre-est…

new Olivia Elias!

So much love to olivia elias for sending us this poem for the upcoming Mizna issue. A blessing to have her in our pages -- every word from our Palestinian elders and nakba survivors is nothing short of a miracle. I hope folks check out her books from World Poetry Books

Catch THREE World Poetry translators (C. Francis Fisher, Daniel Owen, and Olivia Sears) reading together on the West Coast on September 15 at 4pm, at Cushion Works in San Francisco! catranslation.org/event/the-glit…

Came home to the latest issue of Circumference feat. two poems from Judith Kiros's O! The book is out from World Poetry Books later this month 🪞worldpoetrybooks.com/books/o🪞

Reading World Poetry translator Huda Fakhreddine, “Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide” in LitHub. Fakhreddine’s translation of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Palestinian is out October 1 from World Poetry. lithub.com/intifada-on-be…

Congrats to Jennifer R. Kellogg! Her forthcoming translation of Book of Exercises II by George Seferis won the 2024 Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize. Judges applaud her for revealing new insights into Seferis and Greek literature. More here: mgsasymposium.org/anno-ct.html

Read this illuminating conversation between World Poetry translator Huda Fakhreddine and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha for Words Without Borders. Fakhreddine’s translation of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Palestinian is out October 1 from World Poetry. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

You can now read all of Jazra Khaleed’s 35 part serial poem Revolving Doors via Ramparts, a forum from our friends at Barricade. Read here: barricadejournal.org/ramparts/ A new edition of Khaleed’s The Light That Burns us is forthcoming from World Poetry on October 10.

The ALTA First Translation Prize, now in its inaugural year, recognizes the work of emerging literary translators and their editors. This prize awards one debut literary translation from any other language into English. Congratulations to the 2024 shortlistees!

Check out this review of The Light That Burns Us by Jazra Khaleed, forthcoming on October 10th, by Eleni Sakellis for The National Herald, and pre-order the book on our site! thenationalherald.com/greek-poetry-i…