We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation. Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Thanks to @poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue. It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚

I'm absolutely ecstatic! What amazing company Liliana Corobca and I @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social are in!

🇷🇴 Congratulations to Liliana Corobca and @monicacure.bsky.social! TOO GREAT A SKY has been shortlisted for this year's Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! 🇷🇴 You can read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

An extraordinary issue. Still can’t believe i get to be part of this. 🥹 You will be blown away by these poems. ❤️

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry: DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen, pub. World Poetry Books! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

So excited that Too Great a Sky @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social) is on this amazing list for this wonderful prize!!!

We are thrilled that TOO GREAT A SKY by Liliana Corobca and translated by Monica Cure has been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025!

Hope is a force field.

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Beyond excited for literary events next week in Seattle and San Francisco! I've just done a round up of happenings in my latest newsletter if you want to find out more: monicacure.substack.com/p/coming-soon

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

Might as well see the beauty. Days of rain in Bucharest.

And we have a cover! I can't wait for everyone to be able to get their hands on my translation of Tatiana Tibuleac's incredible novel The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes. It comes out on January 13 from @deepvellum.bsky.social.

It's not too late to wish my fellow human translators Happy International Translation Day! (literal Romanian google translation reads, "can I drink fatback"). Also a good moment to remind everyone that translators are writers.

A highlight this week was a fascinating talk on anthropology and biomedicine from Raluca Nagy - and a long awaited meeting! I translated a sample from her novel for the European Prize for Literature in 2022 and now learned how her fieldwork inspired it. euprizeliterature.eu/en/prize-aut...

A nice backdrop for my translation of Dan Coman's wonderful poem at the opening night of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival. Originally published in Plume Poetry plumepoetry.com/a-tall-bird/

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

Discover Romanian Romani author Madeline Potter’s excerpt from her newest book, The Roma: A Travelling History (2025), a moving reflection on Romani memory and identity challenging erasure and reclaiming the power of storytelling. Read via @literaryhub.bsky.social: #Roma #Amreading #Booksky

On Ukraine's Independence Day, here are 10 books to help you understand the country better. My little listicle for @kyivindependent.com. kyivindependent.com/10-books-to-...

"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year." Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Thanks, Monica! It was such a pleasure to talk to you both about this wonderful book. It really was one of the most compelling original things I've read in a long time.

Liliana Corobca and I gave an interview to @joewilliamshistory.bsky.social at Trafika Europe Radio on The Censor's Notebook (@sevenstories.bsky.social/@sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social), with a reading starting at 5:10. Always love introducing this ingenious book to new readers! bit.ly/censors-note...

From the archives: Romanian translator @monicacure.bsky.social talks about how translation can aid recovery and restoration and her hopes for future translated Romanian literature. www.apofenie.com/the-latest-c...

Today Ukraine's southwestern city of Chernivtsi, located on the border with the EU, was targeted by Russia with Shahed drones. It's a dark milestone in the war. I wrote about this frightening day for @kyivindependent.com. kyivindependent.com/the-day-i-fi...

It's a great honor. Congrats to my fellow finalists. Looking forward to congratulating the winners soon as well!

“You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms.” —Anna Akhmatova; tr. Donald Michael Thomas

EBRD Literature Prize 2025: Awards Ceremony youtube.com/live/Bn8i-BJ...

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

move over hot girl summer, it’s time for sweaty stressed girl who just wants to read her book in the shade summer

Slowly getting ready to announce the Oxford-Weidenfeld translation prize @oxfordcct.bsky.social. Minna Jeffrey, Thom Murphy, @acantrill.bsky.social, and I had our work cut out for us!

I can't wait to be in Oxford next week for Oxford Translation Day! It has been thrilling being part of the jury for this amazing prize along with my fellow judges.

In Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next to one another in a standalone work of art. Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

It was amazing to see ‘The Roma’ in my local bookshop @goldenharebooks.bsky.social — head over for a signed copy 🤭

Mici after voting at Obor market with friends. We're hoping for the best.

Mood going into this election weekend here in Romania. Hoping we choose a president that will keep us connected to the rest of Europe, who will behave respectfully and act wisely and honestly for the common good. Vreau înainte, nu înapoi.

The pro-Europe march in Bucharest has started. I love seeing this support ahead of the upcoming elections. Romania becoming part of the EU is part of what allowed me to return here.

RIP Henry James you would have loved the story of an American from the Midwest who enters a world of European intrigue

I've stared at the Too Great a Sky cover right side up and upside down but it's beautiful at this angle too.

I had an amazing time at the @penamerica.bsky.social World Voices Festival. The invitation to speak on the translation and censorship panel gave me the chance to reflect on the origins of the myth of "market demands" when it comes to translated literature.

The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

Molasses Books in Brooklyn. What a truly fortunate find on my search for coffee to fight my jet lag.

A lovely place to wait for the bus to the airport on a Bucharest morning

Excited on this World Book Day to invite you to join me at the @penamerica.bsky.social #worldvoicesfestival in NYC with @sawadhussain.bsky.social, Sandra Smith, and Michael Eskin for the panel “Translation on the Line: Censorship, Power, and the Politics of Language” on 5/3 @ 12:30PM

🇷🇴 Romania’s shortlisted author is critically acclaimed Bogdan Crețu. His novel “Less Than Love” is a profound mirror to human emotions. Discover more ⬇️ #MeetTheAuthors

Korean artist Soo Sunny Park creates large sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt

Bucharest Easter mood

A great synthesis of American literature in the age of Trump by the brilliant Viet Thanh Nguyen lithub.com/viet-thanh-n...