Really looking forward to this session of Translingual Creative Writing ILFU on “Writing Home, Writing Shelter” with Yael van der Wouden & Holly Pester 🍐🏠💚 24 May, 15:00. Register here:
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Mia You Dear Mia You, the lecture is postponed. We hope to welcome you on the 15th of May!

Very glad to have this text in the new issue of Berlin Review: my thoughts on Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost, Yara Rodrigues Fowler's Zwischen Himmel und Erde and the question what literature can do: blnreview.de/ausgaben/2024-…

‘Little translators know how to maintain a minute and fragile vision by performing the utopic idle labor within the structure of death, through our day-to-day, inconsequential living.’

Don Mee Choi KimHyesoon 김혜순시인 phantom pain wings

A humble offering. I had the honor of getting to review Fady Joudah 's newest [...] for Michigan Quarterly Review. I talk about genocide denial, addresses to future readers, and deixis. Thanks to Fady for writing, and to Khaled Mattawa for the invitation. <3 Free Palestine.

Maya Wind's Towers of Ivory and Steel will be presented at Utrecht University on May 14th.. with Diana Vela Almeida 🍉 & Layal Ftouni 🌊🍉

Dear friend, colleague, comrade Layal Ftouni is speaking in Amsterdam next week on Reproductive Warfare and the Right to Life in Palestine. Please join! IISG

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Israel has killed Shaymaa, Refaat Al-Areer's eldest daughter, to whom he had written 'If I Must Die.' Genocide works obsessively at all scales of extermination. Tornoto's public library that banned the poem a few days ago: Are you cmplicit? Who else?

'Suddenly I.'

There are no poetics of a mass grave. There is no way to make it sing. There is just the place where everyone who deserved better is buried. We must keep our eyes on Gaza, on the massacres the Israelis are performing, on the mass graves.

All of the greats are going this year.

Sweet write-up by Iris Bosma of the multilingual workshop that I led in Utrecht in November 2023, thanks to Mia You (Mia You). '... there is something captivating about intertwining your own native language with another language such as English.' poetry.sites.uu.nl/2024/03/22/tra…

Fellowships in the Netherlands to Palestinian scholars, journalists, writers and artists at risk. Deadline for application: 21/05/2024. nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/sa…

Excellent long read from Andreas Malm:

The Open Letter From North American Academics Condemning Scholasticide in Gaza has over 600 signatories from institutions of higher learning in the United States, Canada & Mexico. All academics affiliated with a North American institution can sign & share: forms.gle/whJn2XkjQnevow…

Hi, book friends. I found the list of publishers distributed by Small Press Distribution (SPD) as of the end of January 2024 on the Wayback Machine. I created a spreadsheet with links I could find quickly. It's a work in progress but I hope this is of use. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Happy for the Chinese poet YE Hui! My English translation of his poems was selected by PEN America 's Translation Committee for a Heim Translation Grant. Onward to champion more mavericks! Pls take a look at the other projects & works by committee members! bit.ly/3PJEYpc

'In this powerful and moving trilogy, she has turned a poetic mirror not only on Korea, but also on herself.' - Terry Pitts on MIRROR NATION by Whiting winner @donmeechoi buff.ly/498M6Cm

Like fried potato chips -- I believe so, ut-
erly so -- The hush-hush providing ground
was utterly proven as history -- Hardly =

- Don Mee Choi, 'The Tarzon's Guide to History'

Kim Hye-soon's “Phantom Pain Wings” marks the first time since the critics association’s inception in 1975 that a translated book of poetry was awarded the prize. The collection was translated by Don Mee Choi, a Korean American poet and translator.

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Richard Serra 'Hand Catching Lead' (1968) 🩶🩶🩶