How can poetry help us see the Middle East more clearly? julianzelizer.substack.com/.../how-can-.... #ArrowsmithPress #JoAnnMort #APreciseChaos #PoetryAndPolitics

We are thrilled to announce that At the Same Time: New and Selected Poems by Wang Jiaxin, translated from Chinese by John Balcom, has been named a finalist for the prestigious PEN Translation Award! 🏆 #ArrowsmithPress #WangJiaxin #JohnBalcom #PENAmerica #TranslationAward

Book Review: “Crimean Fig” — Everything Has Its Own Soul artsfuse.org/320347/book-...

We must share these powerful words from Oleksandra Matviichuk, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and head of Ukraine’s Centre for Civil Liberties, delivered at the UA-MED Heal Ukraine 2025 Conference at Harvard University (November 7–8, 2025). #UAMED #HealUkraine #UkrainianHealthcare

Watch out, readers! 📚✨ The Arrowsmith Fall 2025 Launch Livestream is now on YouTube! 🎥 Catch the readings, conversations, and new releases we’re thrilled to share. 👉 Watch now — www.youtube.com/live/84o05Kh... #ArrowsmithPress #Fall2025Launch #LiteraryCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #Publishing

What an incredible night at the Arrowsmith Press Fall 2025 Book Launch! 💫 Huge thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate poetry and community with us at Boston University’s Katzenberg Center. We’re so grateful to Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Bruce Smith, and Wang Jiaxin for sharing their works.

📚 Fall Launch at Boston University! 🍂 Huge thanks to the prestigious authors joining us for their readings, insight, and inspiration. We’re honored to celebrate another season of powerful literature and new voices with our friends, readers, and the BU community.

📢 This Thursday! 📢 The Fall 2025 Book Launch is almost here. Don’t miss an evening with Bruce Smith (Hungry Ghost), Wang Jiaxin (At the Same Time), and Tadeusz Dąbrowski (The Scent of Man). 🗓 Thursday, October 23 @ 7pm EST 📍 BU Katzenberg Center OR 💻 join online #PoetryEvent #BookLaunch

Join us for the Fall 2025 Book Launch featuring Bruce Smith, Wang Jiaxin, and Tadeusz Dąbrowski 📍 Katzenberg Center, 871 Commonwealth Ave 🗓️ Thursday, October 23rd at 7 PM EST Attend in person or online! #BookLaunch #PoetryEvent #BruceSmith #WangJiaxin #TadeuszDąbrowski

Who Owns Our Imagination? Written by Askold Melnyczuk Who tells the best stories, and what happens when business, politics, and technology start deciding for us? www.arrowsmithpress.com/.../who-owns... #AskoldMelnyczuk #ArrowsmithPress #WhoOwnsOurImagination #TheHumanities

Hinge-Weather: In conversation with Sven Birkerts Birkerts, one of our Fall 2024 Arrowsmith Press authors, has long written about how we meet change: patiently, attentively, and with the willingness to be altered by what we see. open.substack.com/pub/danuta/p...

The Hopkins Review has published Wang Jiaxin’s poem “Gwangju Boy” — and announced it will appear in At the Same Time, forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press. Read it here: hopkinsreview.com/features/gwangju-boy-wang-jiaxin #WangJiaxin #Poetry #TheHopkinsReview #AtTheSameTime #ArrowsmithPress

Four searing poems from Special Operation, Ukraine by Mark Pawlak are now live on [The Arts Fuse]. They chronicle the brutality and humanity found in the midst of war: from Kharkiv’s bombed streets to soldiers retrieving fallen comrades. #MarkPawlak #UkrainianPoetry #ArrowsmithPress #Poetry

This is a great book in a great translation

Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poetry, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, “moves intimately through spaces sacred and profane, suggesting we are never fully in one world or the other.” Read THE SCENT OF MAN (@arrowsmithpress.bsky.social) for #NationalTranslationMonth: www.arrowsmithpress.com/tadeusz-dabr...

@ChytomoE describes #YuliyaMusakovska's #Ukrainian poetry collection “The God of Freedom” as having an "intellectual discipline [that] sets it apart": chytomo.com/en/foxes-bir... Find the book here, translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and the author: www.arrowsmithpress.com/order/p/the-...

Read poet #ThomasOGrady 's review in #NixesMate for his latest collection "Coming Ashore": "When Thomas O’Grady is not coloring the world and palpating its air with wings, he is reckoning the deep breath of music..." nixesmate.pub/issue-34-35-... The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/thomas-ogrady

A review of @jo-ann.bsky.social's first poetry collection, A Precise Chaos, in @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-preci... "Mort repeat­ed­ly asks ques­tions about poet­ry, about Jew­ish iden­ti­ty, and about who we are..." The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

In June, the late #Ukrainian writer and public figure #VictoriaAmelina won the #OrwellPrize for political writing for “Looking at Women Looking at War,” the book she was unable to finish before a Russian missile killed her. Read more about her story here: chytomo.com/en/victoria-...

In @parisreview.bsky.social: three dispatches from the New Chamber Ballet’s poet-in-residence, @DianeMehta, who has observed their rehearsals for the past year and a half: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06... Read more like this in Tiny Extravaganzas: www.arrowsmithpress.com/order/p/tiny...

With your morning coffee: a poem by Askold Melnyczuk from The Venus of Odessa "I imagine somewhere beyond the tree that house, the solitary, careful child within, and the dragonflies rising and falling like pistons..." voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/14/a... The book: askoldmelnyczuk.net/books/the-ve...

Spring Arrowsmith poet and journalist @jo-ann.bsky.social reflects on her 30-year hiatus from poetry to focus on journalism -- and what it took to publish her first collection at 69. Read her story here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/how... Explore her book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

Thrilled to contribute 3 translations to the anthology of writing in Crimean Tatar @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social kyivindependent.com/what-russia-...

I hope you enjoy as much as I did my interview with @agnimagazine.bsky.social & @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social editor/author Askold Melnyczuk on The Venus of Odesa, now out from MadHat Press. #ukrainewriter #ukraine #poetry #odesa

Yuliya Musakovska’s THE GOD OF FREEDOM follows “the peoples’ future under the shadow of war and its tumultuous past.” Read an @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social collection, translated from the Ukrainian by Musakovska and Olena Jennings, this #WITMonth! www.arrowsmithpress.com/yuliya-musak...

In this @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social collection translated by Wadaq Qais and Tamara Al-Attiya, two poets “speak to each other, and us, about the stories that nurture, and the damage caused by the fantasts of power.” Read WHERE DO YOU LIVE? this #WITMonth: www.arrowsmithpress.com/hanaa-ahmad-...

In @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, #AskoldMelnyczuk explores the moral questions posed to us in the face of war, and remembers #VictoriaAmelina: "Just how deep is my love? Would I be willing to die defending this place? Could I imagine killing to protect it?" lithub.com/nothing-is-p... #UkraineWar

Recently published in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, former Senior Editor #EzraFox reflects on the death of beloved poet and novelist #FannyHowe, long-time resident of Cambridge, MA: "Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor." lithub.com/dear-fanny-d...

Look what came in the mail on this hot and humid day! Congratulations Askold Melnyczuk on your New and Selected. I have been waiting a long time for these poems and I can't wait to dive into The Venus of Odesa. @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social

Just finished The God of Freedom by Yuliya Musakovska. Very intense poetry, some of these lines are sticking with me. I highly recommend, book available from @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social

An impeccable review from @ninamaclaughlin.bsky.social on #AskoldMelnyczuk's forthcoming collection of poems that span fifty years -- The Venus of Odesa. Find Melnyczuk's book here, from Madhat Press: madhat-press.com/products/the... #ukrainianwriter #Ukraine️ #author #Odesa #poet

In May, at Seattle Art Book Fair, we led a poetry & zine workshop on Mangled Blossom by Halyna Kruk—translated by @aglaser.bsky.social & Yuliya Ilchuk from A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails, published by @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social We explored memory, grief & resilience through words and art.

The poet herself is ever present, caught...in that photographic moment between the present and the past, between the work-a-day world of errands and the eternal world of Bach’s music. —Bruce Whiteman on St. Matthew Passion by Gjertrud Schnackenberg @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social tinyurl.com/32y74m6n

Julia Juster, Managing Editor of Arrowsmith Journal, has a brilliant essay in Quarterly West's recent Issue 114! Read it at: www.quarterlywest.com/issue-114-ju... #essay #horses #burrows #America #grief

An excerpt, “Swimming in Odesa,” from Ariel Rosé's forthcoming book, Ukraine—A Polyphony: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/2025... The fourth chapter is devoted to a field trip with PEN Ukraine to libraries and schools in the Odesa region in February 2025. #Ukraine #Odesa

“Crooked Runs the World” by Marjana Savka – a report from Lviv after Zelensky’s White House visit, translated by Oksana Lutsyshyna: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/croo... #russia #Ukraine

Are photographs contexts for the nurturing of solidarity, or are they forms of socially acceptable voyeurism? Read “Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Regarding the Pain of Others” by David Rieff for his thoughts: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/ukra... #photography #war

“The Long Forgetting: An American Origin Story Retold” by Judith Nies — the essential element omitted from America’s origin story is the role of money, who made it, where, and how: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/long...

Read Diane Mehta’s TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS (@arrowsmithpress.bsky.social) for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: The poems in this collection are “miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting, the sublime, labor, and faith.” bookshop.org/a/500/979898...

“Word Pictures” by Jacki Lyden – the author and radio host encounters her memoir drawn daily by another artist: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/word...

Featured Poets in Arrowsmith Journal Volume XXX: Ellen Hinsey and Madeline Gilmore introduced by Alexandra Kamerling and Askold Melnyczuk: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/feat... #poetry #poets #poems

Featured Fiction: Louis Harnett O’Meara — “Old Friends,” a short story: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/feat... Read all pieces in Arrowsmith Journal Volume XXX: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/cate... #fiction #nonfiction #poetry

“Cradle to grave in the digital age, we are constant fodder for corporate profits.” —Dan Hunter in “The Door is Open: Death in the Digital Age”: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/grie... #digitalage #ai #grief #tech

Five poems in honor of Antonella Anedda’s forthcoming book (FSG, 2026), translated by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/wint...

“How is it that we Jews may exempt other Jews from moral scrutiny?” —Philip G. Alcabes in “Gaza and the Jewish People” for the latest Arrowsmith Journal XXX: www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/gaza... #gaza #litjournal #literaryjournal #writers

In A PRECISE CHAOS, Jo-Ann Mort’s poems “reflect her experiences as a trade union activist, a political organizer, and a peace activist in the Middle East.” Order from @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social for your #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/a/500/979899...

"If it happens that you wiled away your early years on a tiny, windswept island at the far eastern edge of the North American continent in a country called Canada, you will recognize the poetry of Thomas O’Grady as that of a fellow Prince Edward Islander..." www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...

"A PRECISE CHAOS examines, with profundity, intricate human patterns of memory, history, and love, where the personal and the political intertwine and nothing ends cleanly because nothing is ever entirely lost." —Leigh Rastivo for The Arts Fuse: artsfuse.org/308737/book-... #poetry

"For me, poems are like cats—they appear mysteriously and unannounced. " —Thomas O'Grady in an interview with rob mclennan: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/12-o... #poetry #poems

A Reading List for Jewish American Heritage Month 2025: clmp.org/news/a-readi... Thank you for including TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by Diane Mehta (@dianemehta.bsky.social), @clmporg.bsky.social!