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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I'm not on the socials much these days, but I want to thank #guggfellows2026 for this truly heartening support. The outside world provokes you and something from inside you stirs in response: their meeting point is the seed of the poem.

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Popping on briefly with my hair on fire to say Hurray for World Poetry Review! The new issue has twelve poems from Yari Bernasconi's La Casa Vuota that I had the pleasure of translating from Italian earlier this year. worldpoetryreview.org #yaribernasconi #poetsofinstagram #worldpoetryreview

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World Poetry Review

World Poetry Review is a literary journal dedicated to publishing exceptional poetry from a diverse range of languages, cultures, and eras in translation.

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Waywiser Books, the 501(3)(c) US-based successor to the UK's venerable Waywiser Press, is now running the 21st Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be judged by A.E. Stallings. Deadline December 1, 2025. We want to read your poems! www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...

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The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize — Waywiser Books

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It was a pleasure to talk with the delightful Gregory Dowling for the Italian journal Oltreoceano on themes of exile in my new book, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye. (English version here, and you can click for the Italian PDF if you wish.) riviste.lineaedizioni.it/index.php/ol...

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An Interview with the Poet V. Penelope Pelizzon about Her Recent Book A Gaze Hound that Hunteth by the Eye | Oltreoceano - Rivista sulle migrazioni

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In the midst of madness, how good to have the happier bafflement of poems to translate! I'm working on Yari Bernasconi's La Casa Vuota these days, and here's a flashback to a few from his terrific Nuovi Giorni di Polvere. #yaribernasconi www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/new-d...

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from New Days of Dust - Asymptote

Postcard from Saint-Gilles-du-Gard Stones, behind the gate and chain. Behind the barrier’srust. A guidebook describes the miracleending in nothing: sand and dust. It narratespersecutions an...

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Ah! How nice to log on -- amid the burning of Rome aka in Washington, D.C.-- and find this new heartening venture afoot. Save my soul once again, poems!

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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 24/02/2025

Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize

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The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize

THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Insect appreciation post! 1) Past: With Daniel Kobamelo and termite mound in Botswana c 2013 on an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. 2) Present: CT nature friends, a house bill on pesticides that needs written testimony by 2/19--easy to do w/ this link. ctpesticidereform.org/so/3aPJtrkur...

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:

On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both.

Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices.

If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund.

Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically.

This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history.

Sincerely, the undersigned,

American Booksellers Association
American Booksellers for Free Expression
Andrews McMeel
Annie's Foundation
Audio Publishers Association
Authors Against Book Bans
Berry Powell Press
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Empowering Latino Futures
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Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)
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Judging by the Cover: A Bookstore
Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship
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Latino 247 Media Group
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Levine Querido
Library Futures
Livingston Parish Library Alliance
Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
The National Book Critics Circle
National Coalition Against Censorship
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Texas Freedom to Read Project
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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

One thing I love about teaching environmental writing (alongside getting to take students on the campus tree walk🌲) is sharing all sorts of new writing with them, like this latest from @poetjs.bsky.social at the always exciting @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social ...

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hello, hello... hello? This is not good. Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Just a little gender-complex family from the 17th century. My beloved José de Ribera's portrait of Magdalena Ventura, spouse, and bambino, from 1631. (Ribera was Spanish but spent his working life in Naples, a city that opens your eyes.)🥰

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Woke up this a.m. thinking I would start a punk band called "Rogue Bureaucrats," then got distracted by the latest post by @victoriamoul.bsky.social, on Russian poetry anthologies. (Do follow her link to listen to Nina Iskrenko for an intense soundscape.)

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A lovely surprise! I just learned that my recent book is one of ten titles longlisted for this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, among a bevy of gorgeous works by so many authors I admire. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...

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2024 NBCC Awards Longlist: Poetry - National Book Critics Circle

An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon) Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen (Tin House) Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat) A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I'm so looking forward to trees and conversations and smart humans and thinking through the questions of what a poem can do at Bread Loaf this summer. As Robert Frost might put it, You come too? www.middlebury.edu/writers-conf...

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2025 Faculty and Guests

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Looking forward to reading with Debbie Gilbert this Saturday 12/14 in West Hartford at the WordHouse Reading Series, 2 pm wordhousereadings.blogspot.com

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WordHouse Reading Series

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Poets, do you have a first or second book manuscript? The deadline approaches for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize: $3,000 + publication by Waywiser + a reading with judge Shane McCrae at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.// Submit by Dec 1, 2024// details: hechtprize.waywiser-press.com

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Poets! THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL ANTHONY HECHT POETRY PRIZE//JUDGE: PAUL MULDOON// The winner will receive $3,000 or £2,000, and the book will be published by Waywiser in 2025. Full deets: hechtprize.waywiser-press.com

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The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize – Guidelines and Entries

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V. Penelope Pelizzon @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

This essay is old, but I'm writing about photography and lyric poetry yet again, and went back to see what I had already said... and I still think this is relevant. If you spend any time thinking about how memory and time work in poetry and photographs, maybe this is useful.

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Light Speaking by V. Penelope Pelizzon | Poetry Magazine

Notes on Poetry and Photography

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