This thread will eventually contain all ten titles longlisted for the 2023 PEN America Poetry In Translation Prize. #Poetry #TranslatedLit #2023PENAmericaLonglist 🧵

As a big fan of inflight magazines, this feature on kulleh Grasi in Going Places Magazine from Malaysia Airlines makes my day.

If anyone's still here, there's a launch for the new Circumference Books book at Bureau in New York on March 3: circumferencebooks.com/thoughts/launc… – I'll be making a rare Western Hemisphere appearance!

PEN managed to scoop us in announcing the next book for Circumference Books, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's translation of of Vinod Kumar Shukla's poetry! Shukla's getting the 2023 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature: pen.org/press-release/…

N.b. I'll be in New York and (mostly) Chicago for March – email me if you're around!

Nice to see a book I worked on get a NYTimes review: nytimes.com/2023/03/06/boo…

I wrote a piece for e-flux Criticism on Heman Chong & Renée Staal's itinerant Library of Unread Books: e-flux.com/criticism/5275… – thanks to Francesca Wade for improving this!

We invited @angusph, @RobGMacfarlane, Dan Visel, David Wilk, @OldFortunatus, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Olivia Smith & Richard Nash to select 4 books they would read from Carcanet Press's 2022 collection. View the recommendations (expires in 2 days): bit.ly/Carcanet2022Re… #WorldPoetryDay

Deep-Sea Creatures of Bittersweet Orange and Metallic Opaline Green nytimes.com/2023/05/13/boo…

Finally the Toronto Blue Jays hired hometown director David Cronenberg to make an ad

Today's Feature: In this installment of What Sparks Poetry: Books We've Loved, Jenny K writes on "DMZ Colony" by Don Mee Choi. Read here: poems.com/features/what-…

This wonderful profile of KimHyesoon 김혜순시인 by E. Tammy Kim. Includes Kim Hyesoon’s earlier books in translation from Action Books and recent books from New Directions 💥🙏🏽☄️💫🎊🎉🦋🤩😻🪐🦋

Today, we are proud to announce the launch of The Banned Book Club to ensure that all Americans have access to the books they want to read. Find out more: dp.la/news/dpla-laun… The Palace Project

🏆 The longlists for the 2023 National Translation Awards in Poetry & Prose, administered by ALTA, are HERE! Congratulations to all the translators, authors, & publishers on these exciting lists that span 19 different languages! t.ly/GKsi6

Very happy that Raquel Salas Rivera's translation THE RUST OF HISTORY has been longlisted for the National Translation Award: circumferencebooks.com/book/the-rust-…

Blusky isn't wonderful, but at least it isn't suing the ADL: bsky-social-jbw4v-kdubp bsky-social-e3gbb-ytua2 bsky-social-ke6oz-uhg5k

(N.b. if you are still on here and want a Bluesky invitation, let me know?)

Stuff was said, by me apparently. "In the United States, the life of poetry is small presses." washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/…