Being a mother does not make her life more sacred nor does it make her wish to dissent less important.

Y’all, please question articles that discuss foreign authors (especially dead ones) who are now appearing in English translation and receiving coverage in global outlets without any citation of sources. Biographies, in particular, are major critical sources and should not be erased.

Congratulations to @chapp010.bsky.social and Amanda Murphy on their co-translation of Sandra Moussempès, coming out April 1st! 🎉 Pre-orders are available through the publisher, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...

A poem from ten years ago, first appearing in Horse Less Press: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpv...

Hanging chad question of my 2025 is this, how can we help English translation as a field & English translators as artists to stop acting in colonial-style erasure? & with that, related, to stop fronting sanctimonious & sacrificial? I ask this of us all & take seriously my status in the conversation.

These are my top reads this year. In order read. What books have touched your 2025?

Nomination for best vintage clothing store name in Paris. But happy to hear from other suitors.

Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)

“The two sides of a secret are repression and expression, just as the two sides of the poem are the told and the untold.” -- Mary Ruefle

Mercredi prochain, je participerai à une réflexion collective sur les écrivaines de la précarité. Je présenterai à cette occasion ma recherche sur l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, et en particulier les idées formelles qui se cristallisent dans Ida ou le délire (1973). www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Next Saturday, November 29, I’ll be hosting Biswamit Dwinedy on the Mnemosynes stage. Hope you can join us for a splash in your glass and a flash in your ears at Rerenga Wines ⚡️

A beautiful new translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson of a poem from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUAIRE: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Really pleased to have a new poem @pamenarpress.bsky.social. I wrote a longish post about it on Instagram, my personal relationship with the accordance/discordance of the French "frôle" with the English "fondle." As ever, talking to the work of Hélène Bessette: www.pamenarpress.com/post/carrie-...

We’re so delighted to be hosting our first Pop-up Salon in Paris tonight! Hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @kplumhoff.bsky.social, it features wonderful readers from all over Europe Read about them here: 👇

Two more days!! 💙

We can't wait! We've got such a great lineup of readers, including @philippabowe.bsky.social @amadolaila.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social and many more. All hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social 🎤 Say hi if you are coming 👋

Poème perdu de pressing

On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.

Join us for our 5th Anniversary party, Dec 16th at @pointephemere.bsky.social! Poetry, Music, DJ Sets and lots of surprises 🎉 Featuring Heretics artists @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social @lesteria.bsky.social @richardinlelot.bsky.social + friends and special guests! Don't miss it!

Thank you to Editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for selecting my poem - " 'Dans ces beiges très confortables.,' " written after Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire - to appear in Issue 71 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social. I'm honored to share these pages with so many wonderful poets and artists.

Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi. Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org

"That is what makes anybody a king that everybody cries but he does not." —Gertrude Stein in IDA #nokings

For all the girlhoods usurped me, guess I’ll write their hundred women.

Billy Joel Goth is what I’ve been carrying on the inside.

Sometimes all I remember, or feel I truly know, is that before any other intimate sensuality I was allowed with others, I was allowed their (and thus mine too) texuality.

Thank you so much to Ivy Writers Paris and Red Wheelbarrow for hosting us at last night’s French Poetry in Translation event. Here we are — Sandra, Amanda, and myself — post/during our braided reading of Cassandra at point-blank range (@lavink-dialogos.bsky.social).

Touched to learn my erotic ecosonnet was nominated for Best of the Net by @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor @leepottspoet.bsky.social 🩶

Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) - "Girl à feuilles caduques" stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil... #BotN #BestOfTheNet

Having a deep-well, Walden nature moment with the digital bird sounds at Gare du Nord.

PARIS: Next Tuesday, with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom; Laura Mullen and Stéphanie Chaillou; Sandra Mousssempès, Amanda Murphy, and myself. Hosted by Ivy Writers and The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore. Would be nice to see you there.

“[…] I reognize One in you through the one in me, We, who stay in fleeing – Or who flee in staying. And from your summary abode, I will tell you, Out loud, I love you.”

A poem I wrote at Hélène Bessette’s grave. I’ve published it via Substack, but here is the audio I made, something I like to do to work the poem out of the body in another way. (Of course, working it out of my body in my French is a very "another" exercise.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...

Listen to @chapp010.bsky.social's powerful tribute to Hélène Bessette, written at Bessette's graveside: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...

I wanted to say thank you to @chapp010.bsky.social for inviting me to speak to your creative writing students at Oxbridge again this summer. I feel deeply grateful for the opportunity to connect with these minds of the future. I only hope that I inspire them half as much as they inspire me. 🙏

Sur @franceculture.fr. Alors que la France devrait reconnaître demain l’Etat de Palestine : à quoi sert-il de reconnaître un État ? Propos comparés avec Taïwan, le Kosovo, le cas du Sahara occidental. Merci à @insafrezagui.bsky.social www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Though I don't always practice it and think it has some real things to sort out, I think creative and euphoric translation practices are deeply interesting because they free the translator from this creepy benefactor vibe everyone's trying to dress up in.

11 ans à Paris aujourd’hui. « Je ne viens pas pour voir. Ce que tout le monde vient voir. » —Hélène Bessette

@lavink-dialogos.bsky.social celebrates Women in Translation month! Our co-translation of Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès is featured in this selection. Special discount code: wit30 www.lavenderink.org/site/announc...

« …il faut allumer l’épouvantable impatience…» —Liliane Giraudon

I'm excited to release this brand new video clip for my track "Feeling the air" from my recently released album, spatium. I hope you'll give it a watch and let me know what you think! 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TmP...

Chicorée Au bord du jour, je Frôle le pâle azur domptant La fougue de nos nuits. #poèmestibles

The last Mnemosynes reading of the 2024-2025 year with gorgeous poems from Rhoni Blankenhorn and Lindsay Turner. Thank you, dear poets, for the pleasure and real questioning of your verse. It has been an honor to share these moments with you all this season. See you soon in September. GROSSES BISES.

This new piece by Catherine Rickman in Frenchly features thoughts about the expat artist experience in Paris from @chapp010.bsky.social, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social, and @lesteria.bsky.social 🙌 Thanks for shining a light on the Heretics! frenchly.us/what-its-lik...

Poème de la craie bleue de tailleur

A new sonnet siphoned from summer visits with Agnès Varda and many pages penned in the company of my Oxbridge creative writing students. spiritualmaterial.substack.com/p/self-portr...

Full week of rain in Paris, and I’d like to petition the engineer-entrepreneurs of this world to help me conceptualize a "book poncho."

Poetry & hybrid writing from contemporary French women writers! Amanda Murphy & I will be presenting our co-translation of Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès alongside Laura Mullen who will be releasing her translation of something happens by Stéphanie Chaillou. 2pm CST & 21h CEST.

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Of her homage to Liliane Giraudon, @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social writes, "These are the fragments I first envisioned painting onto glass. I eventually decided to reduce the amount of text inside the window itself, but the original selection has since coalesced into a found poem."