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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Don't miss World in Verse on 1/31, 11am ET! A free virtual poetry reading w/ AAP and Eileen O’Connor, Jackson Watson, Katerina Iliopoulou, @michehut.bsky.social, Nathalie Handal, Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad, @samanthaschnee.bsky.social, and Yolanda Castaño. RSVP here: wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2026

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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

We're absolutely delighted to announce Magma 93 'Liberation' is now published and available to buy on our website. Edited by Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social #liberation #magma93 Get your hands on a copy now! magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...

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Sohini Basak @sohinibasak.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. Do help out if you can and/or spread the word!

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

One of the best movie rediscoveries of the last decade was the Iranian film CHESS OF THE WIND (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976). It's currently available for free online with English subtitles mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Chess+...

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Kyongmi Park’s “The sea and the here and” (tr. Rina Kikuchi & Jen Crawford) is a dreamy, shifting meditation on the sea and the self, which intertwine in unexpected ways. Read it on WWB: buff.ly/lW4SE6r

: Fish swimming in water with the quote “Down on the beach/ we’re in our bright blue one-piece bathing suits/and our colourful striped bikinis/(in your twenties it all fits in, zero flesh spills over)/ and our bodies proudly accept the strength of summer’s rays” and the text “'The sea and the here and' by Kyongmi Park (translated from Japanese by Rina Kikuchi & Jen Crawford)”

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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Just a few days left to get your poems in! ***Deadline is Sat 5th April, 2025*** Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue. magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We have extended the deadline for submissions to the Liberation issue to 5th April.

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Sohini Basak @sohinibasak.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

🍃 Call for Submissions 🍃 Magma Poetry #93 Looking forward very much to editing this issue on the theme of "liberation" with Isabelle Baafi & Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi.bsky.social Details: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub... 📩 Get your poems ready! 📅 Deadline: March 31 RT & spread the word!

B&W poster with the words Magma Call for Submission Issue 93 Liberation written in big bold letters

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Clare Richards @clarehannahmary.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Excited (& nervous) to be sharing this personal essay on translating while neurodivergent, autistic-coding, the search for authentic representation, smiles as social currency, dropping the mask and more. Read the essay here: tinyurl.com/4veu435y

Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background
Text: Face Value: Translating Divergence

Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background
Text: Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms.

Image: fluorescent jellyfish of various shades of blue swimming against a black background
Text: This disability issue of Words Without Borders is a collection of stories and essays about us and not them, written by us and not them, translated by us and not them.

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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 05/02/2025

#BayArea friends, join us tomorrow at 7 pm @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for readings and a conversation celebrating #Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish's NO ONE WILL KNOW YOU TOMORROW with #translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid and poet Zeina Hashem Beck. www.catranslation.org/event/kareem...

Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Zeina Hashem Beck present NO ONE WILL KNOW YOU TOMORROW: SELECTION POEMS 2014-2024 by Najwan Darwish. Square black and white photos of Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Zeina Hashem Beck and book cover image.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 28/01/2025

“This story did not come about from a desire to be immortal, which strikes me as an embarrassingly egotistical desire. Anyone who wants to live forever must surely be the most fatuous person alive.” One of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done, thank you @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social!

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“Making Space for Each Other”: Anton Hur on Toward Eternity, Translation, and Immortality - Words Without Borders

Mandana Chaffa uses the otherworldly premise of Anton Hur's novel Toward Eternity to discuss Hur's path to translation, community, and immortality.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Add some international poetry to your wintry weekend. Join WWB and the Academy of American Poets for an hour of global poetry readings on January 25th at 3pm ET. Learn more about World in Verse 2025 here: wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2025

The text “World in Verse: An Evening of International Poetry. Featuring Joshua Edwards, Lynn Xu, Yang Licai, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Stine An, and Yoo Heekyung. Saturday, January 25, 3pm ET (UTC-5) Virtual event via Zoom. Registration required: wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2025” with portraits of all the featured poets and the logos of WWB and the Academy of American Poets.

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Sohini Basak @sohinibasak.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Treeptypch, my prose-poem-fiction-non-fiction-dream-text-image mishmash/offering finds home in Almost Island's new issue (30th!) Hope it rains softly if/when you're reading ☁ www.almostisland.com/winter-2024/...

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Daegan Miller @daeganmiller.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It was a honor and pleasure to edit this whole volume, and especially Sohini's fabulous prose poem. Definitely check it out (and marvel at the layout folks who were able to reproduce the spatial layout of Sohini's text).

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 04/12/2024

I published one novel and one short story (a novelette) this year. I'm very pleased to say they are *both* in Esquire's 30 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 list: RAKESFALL and my novelette "The Limner Wrings His Hands" in the DEEP DREAM anthology from MIT Press. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

The cover of my novel RAKESFALL. A hare's skull centered, with worms coming out of it, on a hot pink background with a pattern of green leaves and yellow hibiscus flowers.

The cover of the anthology DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART, from MIT Press. This is part of the Twelve Tomorrows anthology series. The cover includes the names of several contributors and the editor Indrapramit Das, and the artwork is a "living textile" work by Diana Scherer. More of her work is featured in the book. It's a pattern that goes from a grid to a honeycomb to a frayed web.

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My brother Najwan Darwish has a new collection of selected poems out with Yale Press, translated as usual by the mighty Kareem James Abu-Zeid, called No One Will Know You Tomorrow. Go get it! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A FLEETING SLAUGHTER

Eternity doesn't concern me in the slightest.
I wake to a fleeting slaughter
and emerge from a worn-out nightmare.
My only ties are with the land, with the transparency
of the evening above a stolen country.
I avoid looking at the sea,
just as the fox
avoids looking at its wounded leg.

Najwan Darwish

No One Will Know You Tomorrow
Najwan Darwish

Selected Poems by 2014-2024

Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

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Sohini Basak @sohinibasak.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

ELEMENTALS is a 5-book project from Humans & Nature Press. Series eds Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings. My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/ Holiday gifting ideas :)

book cover of AIR geometric design made of birds, insects, clouds

box set of the 5 books that make up ELEMENTALS

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Freelancer Thanksgiving tradition of sending invoices.

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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Join us to listen to poems from Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Tunisia, and to consider the work of translation, publishing, and community at this time of profound global grief and steadfast solidarity. Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...

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Sohini Basak @sohinibasak.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

an honour to have been on the judging panel for the 2023 Poetry Foundation Magazine Prizes Do read: Jennifer Chang/Omar Sakr/Michelle Peñaloza/Omotara James/Lena Khalaf Tuffaha translating Zakaria Mohammed/Yongyu Chen/torrin a. greathouse/Nikky Finney/Roda Avelar About the prizes: bit.ly/34SErrG

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Sohini Basak @sohinibasak.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

First post to celebrate a new publication after ages: I have a slightly experimental essay in this beautifully designed Guillemot Press book: SPECULATIVE NATURE WRITING. Gratitude to the editors Hetty Saunders & Jos Smith. www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction/s...

the red spine of the book with some indoor plants in the background

red cover of the book with B&W print seen through an abstract cut-out

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