Sharing this excellent essay on translation and literary memory. It briefly touches on an older piece I wrote for @wwborders.bsky.social, placing it in a broader discussion. A rich read for anyone exploring multilingual literary histories. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/resta...

Submissions are now open for RIC Journal's annual themed anniversary issue. This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations. Details here: ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...

The November 2025 issue of RIC Journal is now live. ✨ New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language. Please read and share: ricjournal.com

Even my own image sometimes seems another’s. Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.

Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English. The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...

Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English. The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...

Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @willsjack.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

It’s nice that, like an apple, I have skin. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/10/08/i...

It’s nice that, like an apple, I have skin. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/10/08/i...

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @pearlpoet.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social 1/2 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

The Louvre and the ass of a horse: beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/09/10/t...

Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏 "Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost." electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...

This week in the poetry blogs with @kent-nj.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @racheldacusauthor.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...

"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope." beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/t...

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope." beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/t...

"I had no idea where the village of Paris began and ended." Banlieues Chéries: beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/09/b...

"I had no idea where the village of Paris began and ended." Banlieues Chéries: beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/09/b...

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @beckyltuch.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...

I am sometimes in the 21st and sometimes in the 15th century. What does it all mean? Nothing except that we don’t know anything. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/04/r...

I am sometimes in the 21st and sometimes in the 15th century. What does it all mean? Nothing except that we don’t know anything. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/04/r...

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @aempoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social 1/2 www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...

The Hockney Exhibit: beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/07/29/t...

Starting the weekend right.

@prefpolice.bsky.social Bonjour, j’ai déposé ma demande de renouvellement (Passeport Talent – Chercheur) sur ANEF le 23 juillet. Mon contrat doctoral commence le 1er oct., mais je dois fournir le récépissé au plus tard le 25 août. Pourriez-vous m’indiquer les délais ? Merci beaucoup 🙏

Delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available in India (to be available in the rest of the world October onwards). Order your copy here: seagullbooks.org/products/the...

I like fallen people, people who fall, who fell, who will fall, who have been made to fall. I like Adam and Eve and the red apple. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/07/23/t...

I like fallen people, people who fall, who fell, who will fall, who have been made to fall. I like Adam and Eve and the red apple. beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/07/23/t...

"Soyez bien, pas trop seule." On my chance meeting with Peter Handke in Chaville. beyondsixrivers.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s...

"Soyez bien, pas trop seule." On my chance meeting with Peter Handke in Chaville. beyondsixrivers.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s...

There were flowers that I knew, flowers that I didn’t know, there were visible flowers and invisible flowers, flowers that could speak, flowers that were silent, flowers that shapeshifted, and flowers that tasted bitter, there were flowers that were flowers and flowers that weren’t flowers.

There were flowers that I knew, flowers that I didn’t know, there were visible flowers and invisible flowers, flowers that could speak, flowers that were silent, flowers that shapeshifted, and flowers that tasted bitter, there were flowers that were flowers and flowers that weren’t flowers.

Alok Dhanwa, the cult Hindi poet, available for the first time in English in my translation. The World is Made Up Every Day, out now in India (available in US/Europe in October). Order here: seagullbooks.org/products/the...

Alok Dhanwa, the cult Hindi poet, available for the first time in English in my translation. The World is Made Up Every Day, out now in India (available in US/Europe in October). Order here: seagullbooks.org/products/the...

"It is from this that we arrive at a simple but fundamental question: Whose deviation from the standard is art, and whose is error?" Revisiting this article I wrote as I once again think about complex questions of art, translation, and identity. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

"It is from this that we arrive at a simple but fundamental question: Whose deviation from the standard is art, and whose is error?" Revisiting this article I wrote as I once again think about complex questions of art, translation, and identity. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Thrilled to see my translation of Alok Dhanwa's poem Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Verse (from The World is Made Up Every Day, forthcoming from Seagull Books) as a featured poem on @poetrydaily.bsky.social: poems.com/poem/seven-h...

Thrilled to see my translation of Alok Dhanwa's poem Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Verse (from The World is Made Up Every Day, forthcoming from Seagull Books) as a featured poem on @poetrydaily.bsky.social: poems.com/poem/seven-h...

Absolutely devastated to learn that the Trump administration has terminated NEA grants to literary organizations and publishers (including the wonderful @wwborders.bsky.social) apart from removing staff working in the literary arts. Please donate now: secure.givelively.org/donate/words...

Absolutely devastated to learn that the Trump administration has terminated NEA grants to literary organizations and publishers (including the wonderful @wwborders.bsky.social) apart from removing staff working in the literary arts. Please donate now: secure.givelively.org/donate/words...

Am very fortunate to have an object poem in the anniversary ‘Sex, Angels’ issue of RIC Journal…so if angelically erotic encounters sound inviting, do take a look 👀 😇 (My thanks to editors @saudaminideo.bsky.social & Philippe Charlier) ricjournal.com/2025/04/30/t...

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A very perceptive essay on the reception of translated literature. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Love that last line too questioning which deviations are considered errors and which ones are considered art.

Good, and frustrating, piece on the double standards in western criticism/reception of non-western translated literature. 'In a milieu that already marginalizes experimental non-Western writing, experimental non-Western translation is maybe a step too far.'