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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

How can poetry help us see the Middle East more clearly? julianzelizer.substack.com/.../how-can-.... #ArrowsmithPress #JoAnnMort #APreciseChaos #PoetryAndPolitics

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

We are thrilled to announce that At the Same Time: New and Selected Poems by Wang Jiaxin, translated from Chinese by John Balcom, has been named a finalist for the prestigious PEN Translation Award! 🏆 #ArrowsmithPress #WangJiaxin #JohnBalcom #PENAmerica #TranslationAward

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We must share these powerful words from Oleksandra Matviichuk, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and head of Ukraine’s Centre for Civil Liberties, delivered at the UA-MED Heal Ukraine 2025 Conference at Harvard University (November 7–8, 2025). #UAMED #HealUkraine #UkrainianHealthcare

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

What an incredible night at the Arrowsmith Press Fall 2025 Book Launch! 💫 Huge thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate poetry and community with us at Boston University’s Katzenberg Center. We’re so grateful to Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Bruce Smith, and Wang Jiaxin for sharing their works.

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

📚 Fall Launch at Boston University! 🍂 Huge thanks to the prestigious authors joining us for their readings, insight, and inspiration. We’re honored to celebrate another season of powerful literature and new voices with our friends, readers, and the BU community.

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

📢 This Thursday! 📢 The Fall 2025 Book Launch is almost here. Don’t miss an evening with Bruce Smith (Hungry Ghost), Wang Jiaxin (At the Same Time), and Tadeusz Dąbrowski (The Scent of Man). 🗓 Thursday, October 23 @ 7pm EST 📍 BU Katzenberg Center OR 💻 join online #PoetryEvent #BookLaunch

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Join us for the Fall 2025 Book Launch featuring Bruce Smith, Wang Jiaxin, and Tadeusz Dąbrowski 📍 Katzenberg Center, 871 Commonwealth Ave 🗓️ Thursday, October 23rd at 7 PM EST Attend in person or online! #BookLaunch #PoetryEvent #BruceSmith #WangJiaxin #TadeuszDąbrowski

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Who Owns Our Imagination? Written by Askold Melnyczuk Who tells the best stories, and what happens when business, politics, and technology start deciding for us? www.arrowsmithpress.com/.../who-owns... #AskoldMelnyczuk #ArrowsmithPress #WhoOwnsOurImagination #TheHumanities

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

@ChytomoE describes #YuliyaMusakovska's #Ukrainian poetry collection “The God of Freedom” as having an "intellectual discipline [that] sets it apart": chytomo.com/en/foxes-bir... Find the book here, translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and the author: www.arrowsmithpress.com/order/p/the-...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Read poet #ThomasOGrady 's review in #NixesMate for his latest collection "Coming Ashore": "When Thomas O’Grady is not coloring the world and palpating its air with wings, he is reckoning the deep breath of music..." nixesmate.pub/issue-34-35-... The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/thomas-ogrady

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A review of @jo-ann.bsky.social's first poetry collection, A Precise Chaos, in @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-preci... "Mort repeatedly asks questions about poetry, about Jewish identity, and about who we are..." The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

In June, the late #Ukrainian writer and public figure #VictoriaAmelina won the #OrwellPrize for political writing for “Looking at Women Looking at War,” the book she was unable to finish before a Russian missile killed her. Read more about her story here: chytomo.com/en/victoria-...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

With your morning coffee: a poem by Askold Melnyczuk from The Venus of Odessa "I imagine somewhere beyond the tree that house, the solitary, careful child within, and the dragonflies rising and falling like pistons..." voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/14/a... The book: askoldmelnyczuk.net/books/the-ve...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Spring Arrowsmith poet and journalist @jo-ann.bsky.social reflects on her 30-year hiatus from poetry to focus on journalism -- and what it took to publish her first collection at 69. Read her story here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/how... Explore her book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

In @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, #AskoldMelnyczuk explores the moral questions posed to us in the face of war, and remembers #VictoriaAmelina: "Just how deep is my love? Would I be willing to die defending this place? Could I imagine killing to protect it?" lithub.com/nothing-is-p... #UkraineWar

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

An impeccable review from @ninamaclaughlin.bsky.social on #AskoldMelnyczuk's forthcoming collection of poems that span fifty years -- The Venus of Odesa. Find Melnyczuk's book here, from Madhat Press: madhat-press.com/products/the... #ukrainianwriter #Ukraine️ #author #Odesa #poet

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Julia Juster, Managing Editor of Arrowsmith Journal, has a brilliant essay in Quarterly West's recent Issue 114! Read it at: www.quarterlywest.com/issue-114-ju... #essay #horses #burrows #America #grief

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

An excerpt, “Swimming in Odesa,” from Ariel Rosé's forthcoming book, Ukraine—A Polyphony: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/2025... The fourth chapter is devoted to a field trip with PEN Ukraine to libraries and schools in the Odesa region in February 2025. #Ukraine #Odesa

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

“Crooked Runs the World” by Marjana Savka – a report from Lviv after Zelensky’s White House visit, translated by Oksana Lutsyshyna: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/croo... #russia #Ukraine

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Are photographs contexts for the nurturing of solidarity, or are they forms of socially acceptable voyeurism? Read “Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Regarding the Pain of Others” by David Rieff for his thoughts: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/ukra... #photography #war

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

“The Long Forgetting: An American Origin Story Retold” by Judith Nies — the essential element omitted from America’s origin story is the role of money, who made it, where, and how: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/long...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“Word Pictures” by Jacki Lyden – the author and radio host encounters her memoir drawn daily by another artist: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/word...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Featured Poets in Arrowsmith Journal Volume XXX: Ellen Hinsey and Madeline Gilmore introduced by Alexandra Kamerling and Askold Melnyczuk: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/feat... #poetry #poets #poems

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Featured Fiction: Louis Harnett O’Meara — “Old Friends,” a short story: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/feat... Read all pieces in Arrowsmith Journal Volume XXX: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/cate... #fiction #nonfiction #poetry

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

“Cradle to grave in the digital age, we are constant fodder for corporate profits.” —Dan Hunter in “The Door is Open: Death in the Digital Age”: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/grie... #digitalage #ai #grief #tech

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Five poems in honor of Antonella Anedda’s forthcoming book (FSG, 2026), translated by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/wint...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

“How is it that we Jews may exempt other Jews from moral scrutiny?” —Philip G. Alcabes in “Gaza and the Jewish People” for the latest Arrowsmith Journal XXX: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/gaza... #gaza #litjournal #literaryjournal #writers

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"If it happens that you wiled away your early years on a tiny, windswept island at the far eastern edge of the North American continent in a country called Canada, you will recognize the poetry of Thomas O’Grady as that of a fellow Prince Edward Islander..." www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"A PRECISE CHAOS examines, with profundity, intricate human patterns of memory, history, and love, where the personal and the political intertwine and nothing ends cleanly because nothing is ever entirely lost." —Leigh Rastivo for The Arts Fuse: artsfuse.org/308737/book-... #poetry

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"For me, poems are like cats—they appear mysteriously and unannounced. " —Thomas O'Grady in an interview with rob mclennan: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/12-o... #poetry #poems

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A Reading List for Jewish American Heritage Month 2025: clmp.org/news/a-readi... Thank you for including TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by Diane Mehta (@dianemehta.bsky.social), @clmporg.bsky.social!

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Books launching in May 2025! www.clmp.org/news/books-l... Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from this list, which features new books forthcoming in May 2025 from @clmporg.bsky.social members. Thank you for including Arrowsmith titles!

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Arrowsmith poet and Latin American Literature Editor @nidiahernandez.bsky.social's book of poems, THE FAREWELL LIGHT, is an Eric Hoffer finalist –– congratulations, Nidia! www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-... Find the book on our website at www.arrowsmithpress.com/nidia-hernan... #poetry #book

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A wonderful evening launching our Spring 2025 books, yesterday! Authors Jo-Ann Mort, Jennifer Jean, and Thomas O'Grady all gave terrific readings to a full house.

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

See you this afternoon — Arrowsmith Press Spring Book Launch at 4 pm! #boston

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“My first drafts sometimes are nothing but notes with brackets that I place there for words to come. I like to go over a poem for several weeks before it is in its final form — at least for that moment.” So many gems in this interview with Jo-Ann Mort! robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/12-o...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

"O’Grady’s poems celebrate the resilience of the embodied spirit, a space wherein 'a scorched wasteland sprouts green shoots of life' and 'The turning world will spawn its own rebirth.'" —Boston Irish on COMING ASHORE: NEW & SELECTED POEMS by Thomas O’Grady www.bostonirish.com/around-town/... #poet

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"[Thomas] O’Grady is skillful in taking an ordinary moment and making it extraordinary such as an observance in a field, a rider on a horse and a morning sip of coffee." northofoxford.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/c... Thank you, Lynette G. Esposito, for this review of COMING ASHORE! #newbook #poetry

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Arrowsmith Press is a small publishing press located in Medford, MA, home to many works of translation, poetry, prose, online columns, and now, podcasts! Check out our new series where we interview seasoned writers from around the world on their process: open.spotify.com/show/7HxN7Xb... #writers

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

"Mort writes from a place of a life well-lived, of family, of love, of viewing the world through her lens. She sees the world with all of its curves and yet in these poems gives us a little order from the chaos of life." northofoxford.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/a... #poetry #book #newbook #poet

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

"These are the clean, contained poems of a true poet. Again and again, with seeming effortlessness, they strike a perfect balance between straightforwardness and elegance. Their range is vast, their knowledge deep." -Mark Strand, former U.S. Poet Laureate: www.arrowsmithpress.com/thomas-ogrady

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We hope to see you at the Arrowsmith Press Spring 2025 Book Launch! It will be held on Saturday, May 10 at 4 p.m. at Friends Meeting At Cambridge - Quakers, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA. Register to attend either in-person or virtually at www.arrowsmithpress.com/events #poetry #Cambridge #Boston

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A wonderful interview with authors Dr. Hanaa Ahmad Jabr, Jennifer Jean, and translator Wadaq Qais about their recently published book, WHERE DO YOU LIVE? which is a correspondence in Arabic and English poems: youtu.be/V1ztn0VB_YQ?... #poetry #Boston #Iraq

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Subscribe to our Spotify! Here's a wonderful interview with our author, journalist Jo-Ann Mort, about her debut poetry collection, A PRECISE CHAOS: open.spotify.com/episode/6YhT... #poetry #poet

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thank you for including Arrowsmith Journal in this April 2025 Roundup of Member Magazines @clmporg.bsky.social! www.clmp.org/news/books-l...

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"Glyn Maxwell’s NEW AND SELECTED POEMS brings together over three decades of committed creativity." Thanks to poet & writer George Genovese for this thoughtful review of Glyn Maxwell's book, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS in @worldlittoday.bsky.social! worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/new... #poet #poetry

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A terrific interview with journalist @jo-ann.bsky.social on her debut poetry collection, A PRECISE CHAOS, conducted by Arrowsmith Assistant Editor Lara Stecewycz! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoAu... Don't miss our Spring 2025 Book Launch on Saturday, May 10! Register at: www.arrowsmithpress.com/events

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“I know that reality, surrealism, and the absurd are brothers, great friends who talk and exchange opinions. I hope to see them more often.” Explore the Surreal-Absurd in this lovely selection of poems by @nidiahernandez.bsky.social from THE FAREWELL LIGHT: www.mercurius.one/home/nidia-h... #poetry

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Poetry at the Library Series Presents Megan Marshall and David Gullette! concordlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/poe... Sunday, May 4 at 3-4:30 pm at the Goodwin Forum, Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, 01742 #concord

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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Arrowsmith Volume XXX is now out! www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/cate... This issue includes pieces by Philip G. Alcabes, Antonella Anedda, Madeline Gilmore, Louis Harnett O’Meara, Ellen Hinsey, Dan Hunter, Jacki Lyden, Judith Nies, David Rieff, ariel rosé, and Marjana Savka. #poetry #fiction

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