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Layla Benitez-James

@laylabenitezjam

Black Queer Feminist Translator Poet Writer Editor | words @jaialaibooks @cavecanempoets @BlackFemmeCo @VQR @acentosreview @Poetry_London @asymptotejrnl

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POETRY magazine (@poetrymagazine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

POETRY's March 2023 issue is now live! Edited by Adrian Matejka, this issue features a portfolio devoted to Ann Lauterbach and new poems from Dorothea Lasky, KB Brookins, Terrance Hayes and more! 🌷 Cover art by @AyaKakeda. Read it here: bit.ly/3SBsMqF

POETRY's March 2023 issue is now live! Edited by <a href="/adrian_matejka/">Adrian Matejka</a>, this issue features a portfolio devoted to Ann Lauterbach and new poems from Dorothea Lasky, KB Brookins, Terrance Hayes and more! 🌷 

Cover art by @AyaKakeda.

Read it here: bit.ly/3SBsMqF
Layla Benitez-James (@laylabenitezjam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📣🌈Thrilled to be a part of @omiamifestival this year! On April 15th, I'm kicking off an exploration of translating place in poetry and hybrid writing with poet and translator Ian Farnes! See the full schedule here: omiami.org/projects-and-e…

📣🌈Thrilled to be a part of @omiamifestival this year! On April 15th, I'm kicking off an exploration of translating place in poetry and hybrid writing with poet and translator Ian Farnes! See the full schedule here: omiami.org/projects-and-e…
PEN America (@penamerica) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The 2023 PEN Translation Prize goes to Tiffany Tsao (@TiffTsao) for her work on PEOPLE FROM BLOOMINGTON by Budi Darma (Penguin Classics). Congratulations! #PENLitAwards

Barcelona Literatura (@bcnliteratura) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💥Saps com serà el gran final d'aquest #BCNPoesia? 📍Dimarts 16 celebrem el 38è Festival Internacional de Poesia amb un recital únic al @palaumisicacat. Amb Ana Martins Marques, Blanca Llum Vidal, Danez Smith aka Hennyfurr Lopez, Joana Gomila i Laia Vallès... i molts més! 👉barcelona.cat/barcelonapoesi…

💥Saps com serà el gran final d'aquest #BCNPoesia?

📍Dimarts 16 celebrem el 38è Festival Internacional de Poesia amb un recital únic al @palaumisicacat. Amb Ana Martins Marques, <a href="/BlancaLlumVidal/">Blanca Llum Vidal</a>, <a href="/DanezSmith/">Danez Smith aka Hennyfurr Lopez</a>, <a href="/joana_gomila/">Joana Gomila</a> i Laia Vallès... i molts més!

👉barcelona.cat/barcelonapoesi…
Lolwe (@lolwe_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Support Lolwe’s goal of paying writers published in the magazine. Kindly donate and retweet widely. lolwe.org/donations/2023…

EcoTheo Collective (@ecotheo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are ecstatic to be among the extraordinary orgs receiving support from the Poetry Foundation. Our grant will help launch a residency in Alpine, TX & assure the ongoing success of our programs like the Starshine & Clay Fellowship, our collab w fellow grantee Cave Canem

Letras Latinas (@letraslatinas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are excited to announce Unique Niche by Diego Báez (Diego Baéz), a new monthly column featuring reviews that celebrate and interrogate translingual/transcultural books from small presses. Read Laura Villareal's introduction to the column! letraslatinasblog2.com/post/introduci…

We Need Diverse Books (@diversebooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trans creators: now's your chance to apply for a Walter Grant! This year we have two $2000 grants for unpublished, unrepped trans writers and illustrators, along with 5 general grants and 1 disabled creator grant. Info + application here: bit.ly/WalterGrants

Trans creators: now's your chance to apply for a Walter Grant! This year we have two $2000 grants for unpublished, unrepped trans writers and illustrators, along with 5 general grants and 1 disabled creator grant.

Info + application here: bit.ly/WalterGrants
Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths (@yilinwriter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Um, hey British Museum, it's come to my attention that your exhibit "China's hidden century" uses my translations of Qiu Jin's poetry, but you never contacted me for permission. Please note this is a copyright infringement! How are you going to fix this?? #NameTheTranslator

Um, hey <a href="/britishmuseum/">British Museum</a>, it's come to my attention that your exhibit "China's hidden century" uses my translations of Qiu Jin's poetry, but you never contacted me for permission. Please note this is a copyright infringement! How are you going to fix this?? #NameTheTranslator
Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths (@yilinwriter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Deborah My publisher Invisible Publishing has created a pre-order page for THE LANTERN AND THE NIGHT MOTHS, an anthology of Chinese poetry I edited/translated (that includes Qiu Jin's work), accompanied by my essays on translation. Please consider pre-ordering! bit.ly/yilinwang

National Book Critics Circle (@bookcritics) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The NBCC is pleased to announce the 2023 Barrios Book in Translation Prize longlist committee members, who will be joining Barrios VP mandana and board members Adam Dalva and jo livingstone in deliberations. bookcritics.org/gregg-barrios-…

The NBCC is pleased to announce the 2023 Barrios Book in Translation Prize longlist committee members, who will be joining Barrios VP <a href="/recycledgiraffe/">mandana</a> and board members <a href="/adalva/">Adam Dalva</a> and <a href="/Jo_Livingstone/">jo livingstone</a> in deliberations. bookcritics.org/gregg-barrios-…
Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths (@yilinwriter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hold the British Museum accountable for copyright and moral rights infringement and the erasure of feminist poet Qiu Jin! Let's do this together - please spread the word far and wide! #NameTheTranslator #QiuJin crowdjustice.com/case/british-m…

the seams (@seams_translate) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Proudly introducing, in partnership with Ethos Books, the Southeast Asian Translation Mentorship! One emerging translator of Southeast Asian literature into English will receive mentoring from members of the seams (1/3)

Proudly introducing, in partnership with <a href="/ethosbooks/">Ethos Books</a>, the Southeast Asian Translation Mentorship!

One emerging translator of Southeast Asian literature into English will receive mentoring from members of the seams (1/3)
Sandra Guzmán (@mssandraguzman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌟 Pre-order alert! Discount alert! “Daughters of Latin America is a breathtaking achievement of scholarship & sisterhood that will be treasured in and enrich collections.” ~Booklist Take advantage of an Amazon Prime-Day Discount: amazon.com/dp/0063052571?… (amazon.com/dp/0063052571?…)

🌟 Pre-order alert! Discount alert! “Daughters of Latin America is a breathtaking achievement of scholarship &amp; sisterhood that will be treasured in and enrich collections.” ~Booklist Take advantage of an Amazon Prime-Day Discount: amazon.com/dp/0063052571?… (amazon.com/dp/0063052571?…)