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.'

From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, Saudamini Deo explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world. Read her essay:

Final edits done. Soon to be available online or (preferably) at a bookstore.

Final edits done. Soon to be available online or (preferably) at a bookstore.

Thrilled to see my @wwborders.bsky.social essay on the reception of experimental Indian translations in @literaryhub.bsky.social's weekly roundup of the best of literary internet. lithub.com/lit-hub-week...

Really great piece on translation and “readability” as a (sometimes overemphasized) value.

Thrilled to see my @wwborders.bsky.social essay on the reception of experimental Indian translations in @literaryhub.bsky.social's weekly roundup of the best of literary internet. lithub.com/lit-hub-week...

A woman from another century / ferrotype / Paris

In an essay for WWB, @saudaminideo.bsky.social interrogates critical attitudes that harshly judge Indian fiction in translation, prioritizing readerly ease over experimentation and artistry. Read the essay on WWB: buff.ly/tde3VVD

For @wwborders.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on the reception of Indian literature in translation, what it means to play with language, and who gets to experiment: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

For @wwborders.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on the reception of Indian literature in translation, what it means to play with language, and who gets to experiment: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Almost summer rosé evenings, Paris.