As the Visual Editor of Asymptote, I'm looking for primary works of art, or interviews with or features on artists whose work includes language, translation, and/or multilingual elements! Please dm or email me for our full call for pitches if you're interested in contributing or know someone who is!

Mayor Mamdani just did the impossible. He closed NYC’s 12B budget deficit without cutting any services or raising property taxes on working New Yorkers. How did he do it? Efficiency, cooperation with Albany, and TAXING THE RICH! 🤑 👏

The CSU Poetry Center — one of American poetry's most important small presses, 50+ years old — may close on June 30. Its authors have received no answers about their contracts, their rights, or their books. Here's what's happening. 🧵

The new Asymptote, Spring 2026, is live, and I'm excited to share a new visual feature created and curated by an artist and thinker I've long admired, Johanna Drucker. www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/johan...

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

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Viktor Orbán created the global blueprint for authoritarian populism and became a MAGA hero. Today, Hungarian voters sent him packing after 16 years in power. There is nothing inevitable about these guys. Organize. Vote. Fight back. It works.

Closeup of our Earth & Moon !

No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Members of Contract Faculty United, a @uaw.org local at NYU, have won a tentative deal for their first contract that includes— ✅ 95% of members will get >$100,000 ✅ Lowest-ranked faculty will get $91,000 ✅ Every member will get a raise of ≥$14,000 starting the next academic year #ShareGoodNewsToo

shortsighted decision to cut classical languages at UIowa Petition here c.org/ZVhdNSckD8

Earlier this fall, the Poetry Foundation announced upcoming layoffs of longtime staff members. Many poets have already collaborated on a letter sent to the Foundation privately, urging them to rescind layoffs; the Foundation has not responded. Link in story / add your name:

Today’s Featured Poem: “Essay” by Bernadette Mayer from The Golden Book of Words published by @ndbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/essay/

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

The new On the Seawall is a trove of fascinating poetry, criticism, and more. Thank you @ronslate.bsky.social and Nancy Naomi Carlson for including my translations of Laure Gauthier’s prose poems from “I snow (between the words of Villon).” www.ronslate.com/villons-move...

www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/trans... Fall edition of Asymptote is out now, and I'm excited to share this conversation about visual poetry, "trans.sensory and trans-vocal" by inspiring poet-translator-artists Danielle Pieratti and Naoko Fujimoto!

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

You are invulnerable. - Jorge Luis Borges, "To Whoever Is Reading Me"

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Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

Asymptote's Summer Issue is out, and the visual section features, if I do say so, two stunning pieces, including Assistant Visual Editor Junyi Zhou's interview with US-based, indigenous and Greek artist Anna Tsouhlarakis: www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/echoe...

Also out today from @ndbooks.bsky.social! Hélène Bessette’s debut novel initially published in 1953, brilliantly translated from French by Kate Briggs.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I'm grateful to Shoshana Olidort for editing and publishing this essay on translation, Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator," and my own experience of translating Tzara. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/169...

This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV. To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

I'm grateful to editor Chris Clarke for including me in this Desnos Dossier (in incredible company). I loved trying my hand at this poem, which has been in my thoughts for decades. As I mention in my essay, I am enchanted by John Yau's "version," too. worldpoetryreview.org/the-desnos-d...

I was honored to have the chance to interview the incredible artist and visual poet Monica Ong for Asymptote's Spring issue! www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/how-t...

Excited to read at the Kensington Day of the Book Festival in Maryland: April 27.

Honored to share my essay about Robert Pinsky's "Forgiveness" in today's @poetrydaily.bsky.social <3

Today's Feature: In today's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Life In Public, Heather Green (@heathergreenish.bsky.social) writes on Robert Pinsky’s poem “Forgiveness." Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

Here is an excerpt from Heather Green's translation of Laure Gauthier's "between the words of Villon," in which the poet writes towards a new reading of François Villon. Featured in WPR Issue 10. worldpoetryreview.org @lauregauthier.bsky.social @heathergreenish.bsky.social #poetry #translation

Pass it along—D.A. Powell

I’ll be talking about translating Tristan Tzara, and honored to be be part of a program with Dan Beachy-Quick, moderated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, this Sunday at 3 Eastern, online: m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

I’m excited to share the new Asymptote visual features, out today, both focused on film, with gratitude to Junyi Zhou for this fantastic interview with Singapore-based film director Tan Pin Pin: www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/a-nat...

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A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

An excerpt from “between the words of Villon” by Laure Gauthier, translated from the French by Heather Green, recently published in World Poetry Review, Issue 10. Check out more at worldpoetryreview.org!

Watching Varda in my Aesthetics class today. Wish we could visit this show in Barcelona!

As the visual editor of Asymptote, a journal of global literature, I’m always on the lookout pieces about work at the intersection of art and translated or multilingual texts. Usually, these take the form of interviews but they can take other forms (conversations, videos, and more)!

I reviewed Kate Briggs’s new book, The Long Form, for On the Seawall. Thanks Nancy Naomi Carlson and Ron Slate for including it!

Quote post with picture of graffiti from your phone. For a few years, I’ve see this one as I walk into work.