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Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

back then—this is true—the days weren’t any shorter and opportunities to do right weren’t any fewer (from today's Poem-a-Day, "A Brief History of Condensation Trails" by Daniela Danz) poets.org/poem-a-day

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Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previousl

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DJcontraption AKA Dahron J @dahron-anneliese.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

damals waren—das ist wahr—die Tage nicht kürzer und die Gelegenheiten das Richtige zu tun nicht weniger und wahr ist auch ich habe nichts getan als Zeitung lesen dich zur Welt bringen und deine Schwestern den Flugzeugen nachsehen fr—Kurze Geschichte der Kondensstreifen tr—Monika Cassel t.ly/MfrH_

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“Where Does Europe End?”: A Conversation with Daniela Danz - The Georgia Review

Daniela Danz and I have corresponded since 2015, when I first began translating her work. While our exchanges were initially practical or logistical in nature, we started engaging in conversations abo...

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DJcontraption AKA Dahron J @dahron-anneliese.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

back then—this is true—the days weren’t any shorter and opportunities to do right weren’t any fewer and it is also true that I did nothing but read the newspaper give birth to you and to your sisters and watch airplanes in the sky fr—A Brief History of Condensation Trails Daniela Danz t.ly/WXnz4

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Tlacatecolote (Owl-Man) @arrioti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Poem-a-Day Daniela Danz, translated by Monika Cassel “A Brief History of Condensation Trails” ...your face was the profile picture for the new millennium which I couldn’t even begin to understand because I was still preoccupied with the previous one... poets.org/poem/brief-h...

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We are so proud to be named INDIE Publisher of the Year by Foreword! 🎉 bit.ly/43hCNQ0

The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be named INDIE Publisher of the Year by Foreword Magazine.

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Florian Fuchs @fuchsflrn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Daniela Danz‘s “Portolan“ poems are first at a new U Nebraska Press series

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

So looking forward to @monikacassel.bsky.social translating Daniela Danz's poetry. Pre-order at link #poetryInTranslation 📚💙 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So looking forward to this book!! AND it's going to be a bilingual edition. Get your pre-orders in! #PoetryInTranslation ftw!!

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My first book of translations is appearing January 1 and available for pre-order!!!! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... The first English translation of one of Germany’s most inventive and celebrated poets, Portolan, by Daniela Danz, follows the routes of container shipping that,

Portolan by Daniela Danz translated by Monika Cassel pre-order page at University of Nebraska Press

Original cover of Portolan: map where continents are black silhouettes outlined by shipping route lines in red.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/01/2026

Running off to work on a story. In the meantime: Religious left: still a thing.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/01/2026

Singing

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

So excited to share four poems from a collaboration I'm honored to be working on with @christophernelson.bsky.social!!! These are wild, wonderful poems. Take a look!

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Delighted to share translations from a project I'm working on with the amazing @monikacassel.bsky.social: four poems from Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau, a brilliant, hallucinatory re-telling of the Odyssey. Thanks to Asymptote for believing in the work. www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...

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from No One’s Woman - Asymptote

TISSUE SAMPLE : PENELOPEpenelope waits waits for whatwaits penelope? does calypso wait circe wait scylla charybdis sirens wait all all for one only: the one the other—different fr...

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Summer 2025 Reading Period Report & Finalists newsletter is here! 🎉🎉🎉

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Summer 2025 Open Reading Period Report & Finalists!

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Super-excited to have my long poem "Sightlines" out in Under a Warm Green Linden 19. Long poems are my favorite poems to read and to write, and this one--about matrilineal connections, history, and art-making--is especially dear to me. www.greenlindenpress.com/issue19

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Issue 19 — Green Linden Press

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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is what not giving up looks like.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/04/2025

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Probably the nicest thing about editing for a journal is finding a poem you love, sharing it with others on the team, and finding out that they love it as much as you do! Like this gorgeous poem by @rvtrousdale.bsky.social in our new issue of Four Way Review: fourwayreview.com/herring-gull...

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HERRING GULLS by Rachel Trousdale

Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher —Baudelaire No, Charles: we’re all in an airborne …

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

So grateful to be a staff pick!

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

From Episode 70 with @danikastegeman.bsky.social Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/997fb4a3

ON RELENTLESSNESS:

"I find the act of writing or creating to be a part of that relentlessness—| wanted the writing to be relentless too, to refuse to stop, to refuse to be small, and to refuse to not contain everything that it could possibly contain, because we're complex people and the art is complex as well."

DANIKA STEGEMAN, EP 70

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Thrilled to share five sonnets about Potsdamer Platz, my great-grandfather's glass factory, and how the long shadow of totalitarianism persists for decades not only in our landscapes but in ourselves. Thanks to @commonmag.bsky.social for giving these poems a home.

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Writing from a subway platform, @monikacassel.bsky.social observes Berlin’s broken history, and discovers fragments of her own family in the process. Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD

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Glass: Five Sonnets

MONIKA CASSEL <br> In ’87 I see guardsmen walk their AK-47s / on the platforms. The trains slow down but never stop. I think, / my mother was born in such a different Germany, but this is true for…

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Zipped over to my neighborhood “small” Powell’s yesterday to buy @patrycjasara.bsky.social's We Contain Landscapes and saw, again, that the poetry people there have good taste! Look at @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social and @aditimachado.bsky.social's books!

Photo of a bookshelf at Powell's Bookstore Hawthone Blvd with "Staff Pick" notes for the anthology Attached to the Living World, Material Witness by Aditi Machado, and Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Forensically by Paisley Rekdal

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

👇🎯 We are having trouble using proper terminology because it requires us to fully accept exactly what has happened to our country & wrestle with the fact that every single one of our elected representatives in Congress is violating their oaths of office by not immediately impeaching & removing him.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Denver Quarterly 59 #2 arrived in my mailbox today, and I’m thrilled share three sonnets that distill signature moments of my experience being a teen in Germany/U.S. in the 80s. I’m a wordy poet but also love to write sonnet sequences. Grateful to the editors for including me in this fabulous issue!

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New poem in @diodeeditions.bsky.social--an ekphrastic piece on a photo of a flax storeroom (circa 1920) in a factory owned by my ancestors in Moravia. Many thanks to the editors for including my poem in this fabulous issue! diodepoetry.com/cassel_monika/

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Flax Store (Ed. Oberleithners Söhne spinning factory, Halbseit, photo likely 1920s) Dust or light or fiber or slant of shaft or dust of dust or light or afternoon of afternoon of what this century spu...

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025

I miss DEI

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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Day #1 of BHM: Fasia Jansen. She was born in Hamburg in 1929. She was the illegitimate daughter of Liberian Consul General Momolu Massaquoi. Massaquoi was the grandfather of Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, Black German-American journalist who worked at Jet and Ebony magazines. 1/

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Update on “Project Dishtowel,” where I’m teaching myself/ learning to spin flax and weave linen in an attempt to understand the processes that my ancestors mechanized and scaled up to a dizzying degree in a number of factories in 19th- to mid-20th-century Moravia.

Beginning of weaving project, linen yarn in natural, blue, and green colors, on a table loom

Bobbin with handspun linen thread and a piece of a distaff with unspun linen at the edge of the photo.

Weaving piece from first photo, with the shafts of the floor loom visible and a stick shuttle.

Another photo of the woven piece, focusing on the plaid pattern of the colors.

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Daniela Danz translated by Monika Cassel. What a poem! This is how to poem.

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Just saw that my translation of Daniela Danz was featured on this incredible list on Lit Hub! So grateful to the Poetry Foundation and Poetry Daily for helping this poem—which is among the best I’ve ever translated—find readers! And huge thanks to Timothy Donnelly for sharing it again!

Lit Hub headline: 50 Contempt Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024

LIT HUB
"Come wilderness into our homes" by Daniela Danz, tr. Monika Cassel
originally published in Poetry Daily
The challenge of writing poems concerned with ecology is to keep their elegizing and catastrophizing from feeling reductive and routine. Enter Danz's breathtaking invocatory poem, whose reflection on humankind's relationship to the reality and concept of
"wilderness" is a tour-de-force of great complexity, wit, weirdness, vitality, beauty, and catharsis. Her excellent pendant essay, "Wilderness of Speech," is likewise not to be missed.
-Timothy Donnelly, author of Chariot

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

RIP Professor Victor Brombert, who died last month at age 101. I was extraordinarily lucky to take his class on The Modern French Novel in 1991 and was just thinking about Robbe-Grillet, whom we read, the other day. At the time, I knew nothing about his biography, which I’ll link an article to.

Victor Brombert lecturing at Princeton in the 1990s

First page of Brombert’s syllabus for The Modern French Novel, 1991

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Walked down to my neighborhood grocery store to picket with New Seasons workers today. As a former proud union member I won’t cross a picket line, but it’s even better to join one! I call on all Portland area friends to boycott until the workers get a fair contract!

Selfie of Monika in a red hat and holding a picket sign in front of New Seasons Market Hawthorne in Portland, OR

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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It has been 20 years since Bowker found only 3% of books were translations. Of the 100 “best books” by the ny times this year a whopping… 4 are translated. How far we’ve come.

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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 26/11/2024

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Perhaps/ a woman I do not know/ is facing the day with the heavy heart/ that, by all rights, should have been mine. -Lisel Mueller (1924-2020), "In November" one of my favorite poems by Mueller, who, as a young teen, left Germany for the US in 1939. #everynightapoem

IN NOVEMBER
Outside the house the wind is howling and the trees are creaking horribly.
This is an old story with its old beginning, as I lay me down to sleep.
But when I wake up, sunlight has taken over the room.
You have already made the coffee and the radio brings us music from a confident age. In the paper bad news is set in distant places.
Whatever was bound to happen in my story did not happen.
But I know there are rules that cannot be broken.
Perhaps a name was changed.
A small mistake. Perhaps a woman I do not know
is facing the day with the heavy heart that, by all rights, should have been mine.

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Monika Cassel @monikacassel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

At the other end of the parenting road as a new empty-nester who is catching up with all of the things I had to let go of to make space for writing while parenting/managing other significant responsibilities, this post really rings true. Head space for the roaming that writing requires is precious!

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Last week, Black community members at the University of Michigan shared their stories. A long thread, because there were a lot of them, and they can make you weep.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Cover of Larks, with photograph by Nicola Davison-Reed, forthcoming from Ohio University Press in April, 2025. www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...

Book covers featuring black and white photograph: wooden floor, spare wooden table, stack of four cameras, floating sheet white curtain. Delicate white title font.

Larks
Poems

Han VanderHart
Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Selected by Chanda Feldman

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

And the kink in the line and the kink in general is attention. Han VanderHart (Poetry Northwest)

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My Love Snakes the Shower Drain to Keep My Feet from Standing Water

And the kink in the line and the kink
in general is attention.

There is nothing in the plumber's kit
which is not a vector for love.

Vector: the flea from the rat
to the human, I explain to the child.

Who has time to explain a plague,
the black death, London?

Love is the flea, in a certain light.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 21/11/2024

Last night, 19 Senators voted to end illegal arms sales to Israel. We stood up to AIPAC, the Democratic Senate leadership, and the Biden administration. We must continue going forward to end illegal arms sales and hold Netanyahu accountable for his war crimes.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness. —Charles Simic

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