The world owes the Mongols

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Big news for anyone who enjoys discovering #books from around the world in #translation: @catranslation.org will open a new center in downtown San Francisco! Learn more about this exciting initiative and the capital campaign to get across the finish line. www.catranslation.org/sf-literary-...

I wrote about the bad state of book reviews… and reviewed a great new book in translation from Spain countercraft.substack.com/p/i-loved-th...

Thank you to my wonderful publisher, @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social at Wandering Aengus Press and my Editor, @tms2072.bsky.social for shepherding Strange Gift into the world! It’s publication day! I sing their praises. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

"O chainsaw father, unhappy engine, you loved that spot near railroad tracks, next to the water’s edge." Check out Pam Crow's moving poem "Military Cemetery" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/mi...

T&I News - Doctoral student to translate English professor’s banned novel from Persian to English: https://bit.ly/47nwdtu | Binghamton News (02/02/2026) | By Jennifer Micale . . .##Education #Translation #Studies #Persian #English #Novel #AudiovisualTranslation #StudentTranslationAward #ATA #AFTI

That's a wrap on AWP 2026! Thanks to all who attended and participated in Bracken's offsite with Passager and stopped by our Bookfair table. Pictured (left to right) are Bracken editors Morgan Brajkovich, @medjyers.bsky.social, @katedeimling.bsky.social, Ted McMahon, and Linda Hillman Chayes.

Check out the new issue of Bracken! Issue XIV's cover features this image by Claudio Cambon: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/main. See more of his step well photos within the issue: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/cl...

Hello, language experts! You still have time to submit a proposal to speak about #translation, #interpretation, or related fields at #ATA67 in San Francisco.

"Unseen, I came to you on my knees, reciting Millay // to the air like a seaside cure, three long mountains and a wood." Check out Rachel Becker's beautiful poem "Field" in the new Issue XIV of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/.../field-by...

From the new issue of Bracken: "six sharp points and broad-chested // like a king’s stag from the old country." Check out @grantclauser.bsky.social's poem "Deer Morning"!

It's so nice to connect in person! Hello from Bracken, at Table 526 in the AWP Bookfair.

ATA's Lewis Galantière Award is bestowed biennially in even-numbered years for a distinguished book-length literary translation from any language, except German, into English. Submit a nomination by March 1 at https://bit.ly/4kZGXEc! . . .##Literary #Translation #Translator #Language #xl8 #1nt

Such a pleasure to talk with @jackewilson.bsky.social about my translation of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni and why she was one of the most popular writers in 18th-century France (and how she practically disappeared from literary history).

📣 Submissions for the 2026 ALTA awards are open! Publisher and translators: Submit works published in 2025 to our book prizes 🏆 Emerging translators: Apply to the 2026 Travel Fellowships to get to the ALTA49 conference in Portland, OR ✈️ Submissions close on March 16! Learn more: buff.ly/x2W71cx

📢 ATA is excited to accept session proposals for ATA’s 67th Annual Conference, October 28-31, 2026, in San Francisco, California! Submit your proposal today at https://bit.ly/4kmhhBr! 🌁 . . .##Career #Growth #Translator #Interpreter #Experience #LanguageServices #PublicSpeaking #xl8 #1nt #atanet

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What fun to find a bodega cat pic taken practically in my own neighborhood! 🐱

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What happens when you are googling to confirm a fact and *your own writing* shows up as the top result?

Hi, poet friends! My debut collection comes out from Cornerstone Press on January 27. If anyone would like to review it, hit me up and I'll send you an ARC! #poetry

Random wisdom from the 18th century!

Kate, after a moment, made the best of this. #WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

Karen Santos da Silva and I will be at @wordupbooks.bsky.social this Friday talking about our translations of the best-selling French author you've never heard of: Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni. If you're in or near Manhattan, please drop by! #translation #womenwriters

📢📢📢We have just signed a new volume for our 'Critical Texts' series, coming in spring 2027! 'Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Lettres de mistriss Fanni Butlerd. A bilingual edition', edited and translated by Marijn S. Kaplan and Karen Santos da Silva. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Hello BlueSky! Bracken Magazine is open for submissions of poetry and visual art through November 30. Browse past issues and see our guidelines here: www.brackenmagazine.com/submit

This poem by Lorraine Carey from Bracken Issue XIII sent shivers up my spine. www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/s...

Good morning, my loves. Happy Tuesday! This is all i got today. I hope your day behaves.

New course launched for the next generation of creative translators: www.ox.ac.uk/news/feature... | University of Oxford (10/28/25) . . . #Translator #Translation #NextGeneration #Education #LiteraryTranslation #Linguist #Creativity #Masters #xl8 #atanet

I haven't thought much about Ferlinghetti since my brief beatnik phase in the 80s, but the first 4 lines of this poem remind me why I loved it. georgebilgere.com/so/85Pc6j639...

Speaking of dreams and swans, there is this one by Polish artist Wilhelm Kotarbinski…

#Editors and #authors, here’s the best #video ever for #logophiles like us! 💖 www.linkedin.com/posts/merria...

This poem is really a doozy! copper-nickel.org/when-i-say-i...

Glad to see that these guidelines I drew up for people looking for #translation or #interpretation services are still making the rounds online! 😀

The award is bestowed biennially in odd-numbered years, and the winner will be announced on October 23 at the ATA’s 66th Annual Conference in Boston! ⚓️

The ATA Ungar German Translation Award is given for a distinguished literary translation from German into English that has been published in the United States.

ICYMI: the shortlist for ATA's Ungar German Translation Award is out! (post 1 of 3)

Happening next month! Check out this webinar hosted by the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters (CATI), featuring @katedeimling.bsky.social: buff.ly/hJE2rxz

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

Unboxing The Story of the Marquis de Cressy, forthcoming this fall from @mlanews.bsky.social!

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

why AI should not replace human translators #38265073 "A striking example from Prof Federici's research showed the risks of unchecked machine translation of cancer information, with "Don't stay at home if you develop a fever" being translated as "Do stay at home" www.ciol.org.uk/ai-translati...