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What kind of schools and what kind of streets and what kind of parks and what kind of privacy and what kind of beauty and what kind of music and what kind of options would make love a reasonable, easy response? —June Jordan

We won these protections alongside our partners in NYC, LA, & elsewhere, & CA will soon be added to that list! "If there’s a law, then hopefully that saves a lot of time & energy for freelancers from having to fight so hard for what they deserve", member Elizabeth Aaron said.

We're continuing our Freelance Solidarity Project translators solidarity drop-in, this month hosted by the one and only Adrian Minckley!

nyc pharmacies: either everything is under lock and key as if a tube of toothpaste were a piece of handmade jewelry or they have three (3) articles for sale on dusty shelves

This fall I’ll be running a Peter Weiss Aesthetics of Resistance reading group through Workshops4Gaza in anticipation of the release of volume 3 by @dukepress in January. DM me to be on the mailing list and check out their site workshops4gaza.com/workshops

Americans need to somehow understand that their lives are not worth more than the lives of the people in these bags.

Everyone outside Gaza needs to understand: you are not more worthy of life than these people, and they are not less worthy than you.

What do you call it when you close all exits, destroy all routes out, and bomb every inch of a tiny strip with as much munitions as THREE Hiroshimas?

Gaza City this time last year. Now almost completely destroyed. The scale of the loss is beyond comprehension. A crime against humanity in the truest meaning of the words

On 8/2 we launched a formal boycott against PEN America after months of rigorous protest in solidarity with Palestine. Join the boycott––and let PEN America know where you stand. Email template: shorturl.at/PKozK

Calling all literary translators with a sample to pitch - I'll provide a detailed line edit, suggestions for improving the pitch & for who to pitch to. $60, directly to Gaza. Non-translators, check out the many other Workshops4Gaza Palestine zindabad! workshops4gaza.com/calendar/liter…

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 !

Actually many of his students are still alive and it is up to us to continue supporting them. One way to do that is to donate to our friend Hamza: bit.ly/Help4Hamza

I just donated $40. Join me?

”the question we begin with is not ‘How do we make it more accessible?’ Instead, we start by asking, ‘What feels beautiful?’” “the problem isn’t accuracy, per se, but whose accuracy”

'If I had been asked – which I wasn’t – I would have given the International Booker prize to Ia Genberg for The Details...The translation by Kira Josefsson is so good that I kept underlining passages so I could reread them later.' Thank you Mark Haddon! theguardian.com/books/article/…

if you love E. Alex Jung (probably)'s writing (and who doesn't?!) and you wanna find out how the magic happens, the king himself is giving this workshop! i will be joining as interlocutor/former editor/accomplice 🤠 come learn from us & raise money for a family in gaza ❤️