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Attention San Francisco! @litquake.org SF Literary Festival will be taking place Oct 9-25! Catch World Poetry translators Diana Arterian, Marina Omar, and Niloufar Talebi at their respective readings and talks on upcoming World Poetry titles. Details here: www.litquake.org/2025-schedule

Preorder SMOKE DRIFTS this #TranslationMonth! In this @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social collection—translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar—Nadia Anjuman draws on “the lineage of Persian and Sufi writing and her life under Taliban rule.” worldpoetrybooks.com/books/smoke-...

All October long @razomforukraine.org's acclaimed Ukrainian Cultural Festival will be highlighting the resilience and innovation of Ukrainian artists expanding the boundaries of contemporary art. For a full calendar of events and tickets see below: razomforukraine.org/ucf2025/

Join Kira Josefsson, World Poetry translator of O by Judith Kiros, along with Youna Kwak and Caitie Moore for a reading Monday, October 6th, 7pm at Unnameable Books!

In this episode of Backlit, writer and trans. Marguerite Feitlowitz joins host Abena Ntoso - generating ideas for deepening understanding and creativitiy inspired by her translation of Ennio Moltedo’s collection, NIGHT. NIGHT is available now from World Poetry: shorturl.at/4g6nf

Here's a new poem from Olivia Elias, author of World Poetry's CHAOS CROSSING, translated from French by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Read "Hunting Game", trans. from French by Jérémy Robert: www.128lit.org/hunting-game... You can also find CHAOS CROSSING here: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/chaos-...

Here's an excerpt from GOOD & SAFE by Liesl Ujvary, trans. by Ann Cotten & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie, at Burning House Press! Full excerpt here: burninghousepress.com/2025/09/21/t... GOOD & SAFE is out 10/16 from WP! Available for pre-order now: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/good-a...

"Fernández’s hermetic, incantatory palm-of-the-hand poems provide their own continuum of roofs, an imperfect refuge from an extremely imperfect world." —Eric Bies Find the full review of APPARENT BREVIARY by Gastón Fernández, trans. by KM Cascia, in Open Letters Review. shorturl.at/8DOW1

TWO POEMS by Liesl Ujvary (translated by Ann Cotten & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie) @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/21/t...

Eric Bies reviews a new volume of the famous posthumous verses of the famous Peruvian man of letters, Apparent Breviary by Gastón Fernández, out from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social: openlettersreview.com/posts/appare...

On Poetry: September 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @wwph.bsky.social @cabockwrites.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social #booksky #poetry

Check out some excerpts fro GOOD & SAFE by Liesl Ujvary, trans. from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie. Full excerpt here: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09... GOOD & SAFE available for pre-order from World Poetry for October 16, 2025 : worldpoetrybooks.com/books/good-a...

Today, Wednesday, September 17th, at 1pm, join poets George Abraham, Moheb Soliman and Mizna Director and Publisher Lana Barkawi along with Brooklyn Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation on Zoom. Details here: brooklynrail.org/event/2025/0...

New arrivals from Winter Editions @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social

Join Molasses Books on Friday, September 19 at 8PM for September's Another Way to Say and celebrating new & forthcoming translations from Brian Robert Moore, Olga Mikolaivna, and Judah Rubin!

Join The Center for the Humanities tomorrow afternoon, Wed, Sep 17, 6:30 PM at the CUNY Graduate Center for an evening of reading and conversation with Cristina Pérez Díaz and Isabel Sobral Campos celebrating their new poetry books! For more details: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea...

"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall bit.ly/3KaqZbT

Read Tiffany Troy's interview in Asymptote Journal with Aiden Farrell, trans. of THE VITALS by Marie De Quatrebarbes, on the act of literary translation, colloquial gestures, and more. Full interview here: shorturl.at/sujcu THE VITALS is available here : worldpoetrybooks.com/books/vitals

You can read an excerpt from TRANSPARENCIES by Maria Boro, translated from the Italian by Danielle Pieratti, at On the Seawall. For the full excerpt, see here: ronslate.com/to-know-how-... TRANSPARENCIES is available from World Poetry at: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/transparencies2025

Congratulations to Daniel Owen trans. of DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna on being long listed for the The National Translation Award in Poetry! The shortlists for the NTA will be announced on Oct 9, and the winners on Nov 6 at ALTA's annual conference. @littranslate.bsky.social

Read some excerpts and M.A. Orthofer's close-readings of poems from GOOD & SAFE by Liesl Ujvary, trans. by Ann Cotten and Anna Isabella Dinwoodie, in Complete Review! Full review: www.complete-review.com/reviews/aust... Pre-order GOOD & SAFE, out Oct 16, at: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/good-a...

"Reading this book is instruction in how it’s long since time that we relinquish the notion of national canons." —Mat Reeck You can Matt Reeck's full review of THE VITALS, by Marie de Quatrebarbes, trans. by Aiden Farrell, at Jacket2. jacket2.org/reviews/forc...

🎉 We are delighted to announce the longlists for the 2025 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose! 2025 marks the 27th year for the NTA, and the 11th year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose. View the lists here: buff.ly/PJoX7du

Join the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Fri and Sat, Sept 5-6, for "Radical Re-Imaginings: Classics for the 21st Century". Among participants is Huda Fakhreddine, World Poetry trans. of PALESTINIAN by Ibrahim Nasrallah. For more see below: shorturl.at/u5Ogv

"The mind of Gastón may be obsessed with the absconded God, but his commitment to recreating that experience results in writing that bears constant rereading." —Ian Pople Read the full review of APPARENT BREVIARY by Gastón Fernádez, trans. by KM Cascia, below: shorturl.at/uoEJr

In RUINS AND OTHER POEMS, Samer Abu Hawwash engages “with the archetypal Arabic qasida and its echoes in the present.” Preorder this book-length poem, translated by Huda J. Fakhreddine, from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social for #NationalTranslationMonth: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/ruins-...

You can now pre-order GOOD & SAFE by Liesl Ujvary, translated from German by Ann Cotton & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie, with an introduction by Fatima Naqvi, out October 14 from World Poetry! Pre-order here: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/good-a...

Check out this talk with Brooklyn Rail contributor Cole Swensen, and Double Change editors Vincent Broqua, Olivier Brossard and Abigail Lang, and author Bhanu Kapil. Watch or listen here: brooklynrail.org/.../. Learn more about Double Change here: doublechange.org

Three new poetry collections from the first-rate @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social #literatureintranslation #poetryintranslation

"Reading Zuzanna Ginczanka's poems in English is like communing with dybbuks and ibburs interchangeably." —Ewa Chrusciel You can read the full review of ON CENTAURS & OTHER POEMS by Zuzanna Ginczanka, trans. Alex Braslavsky, in The Polish Review. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

"Like the best in consumer technology, the poems in Transparencies are responsive, dynamic, habit-forming." —Eric Bies You can read Eric's full review of Transparencies, by Maria Borio, in Open Letters Review! openlettersreview.com/posts/transp...

In addition: ARC of Liesl Ujvary's great-looking 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 & 𝑆𝑎𝑓𝑒, coming 10/2025 from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social worldpoetrybooks.com/books/good-a...

You can now pre-order Earthly Conditions: Selected Poems by Birhan Keskin, translated from Turkish by Öykü Tekten, out October 14th from World Poetry! Pre-order here: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/earthl...

Join us September 29, 2025 7pm at the Brooklyn Public Library for Colloquy #18 - Translating the Epic, with Luke Soucy and Emily Wilson!

You can now pre-order GIRL WITH A BULLET by Anna Malihon, translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings, out October 9 from World Poetry! Pre-order here: worldpoetrybooks.com/books/girl-w...

Words Without Borders is looking for applicants for their Education Fellowship! This is a unique opportunity for individuals interested in a career in world literature—whether as scholars, educators, or curriculum developers. For more information, see here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Attention Translators! @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social is open for submissions all of August! For details on how to submit translated works, see their submission guidelines page here: worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/

Join us and other small press friends at the BOMB Magazine 2025 Small Press Flea on August 16th, hosted at Amant! For more details, see here: bombmagazine.org/events/small...

Zuzanna Ginczanka’s ON CENTAURS & OTHER POEMS “introduces the full scope of Ginzcanka’s poetic vision and prophetic voice to English-language readers for the first time.” Published by @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social & translated by Alex Braslavsky! #WITMonth worldpoetrybooks.com/books/on-cen...

Enjoy these excerpts from Ahmad Shamlou's ELEGIES OF THE EARTH, translated from Persian by Niloufar Talebi, in Asymptote! For the full excerpts, see here: www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/elegi... ELEGIES OF THE EARTH is out November 11, 2025, and available for pre-order at worldpoetrybooks.com

You can read some excerpts from Ahmad Shamlou's ELEGIES OF THE EARTH, translated from Persian by Niloufar Talebi, at Vox Populi! See here: voxpopulisphere.com/2025/07/13/a... ELEGIES OF THE EARTH is out November 11, 2025, and available for pre-order at worldpoetrybooks.com/forthcoming

"There is no ambiguity in her images, only room for one to flex their interpretive muscles." —Liliana Torpey You can read the full review of DOCUMENT, by Amelia Rosselli, trans. by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard, at Full Stop! www.full-stop.net/2025/07/02/r...

Congratulations to Gabriel Gudding (@tjuvstart.bsky.social)‬ and Peter Covino, the recipients of the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize! For more details on their translation work and the prizes, see here: poets.org/academy-amer...

"Wouldn’t it be enough for poetry to remain as something that doesn’t really serve any function, something without a definite meaning?" —SJH An Interview w/Seo Jung Hak and Megan Sungyoon on the Korean Prose Poem, by Alton Melvar M Dapanas, in Asymptote! shorturl.at/KOPMc

"Wirpsza’s work may provide some guidance as to what the artist’s role could be in the face of humanity’s darker moments..." —Katherine Beaman You can read Beaman's full review of Apotheosis of Music by Witold Wirpsza, trans. by Frank L. Vigoda, in Asymptote Journal! shorturl.at/aHzRP

Join Us & Them as Molasses Books this Friday at 8pm to celebrate 10 years of this special reading series!

Berlin! Join us tomorrow at daadgalerie w/Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale and Eugene Ostashevsky for a reading w/ translations and responses to Maria Stepanova's Winterpoem 20/21 – a polyphonic long poem about life in the political limbo. July 11, 2025 - 7 – 9 PM For more: shorturl.at/iFuGm

Eric Bies reviews a new translation of the important Polish poet, Apotheosis of Music by Witold Wirpsza, out from @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social: openlettersreview.com/posts/apothe...

You can find two poems from Don Sociu, translated from the Romanian by Monica Cure, in the June issue of Plume! Dan Sociu's book in Monica Cure's translation will be coming out with World Poetry in 2026. plumepoetry.com/two-poems-tr...