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.

Luxembourg

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."

Rue Saint-Sabin

Hand fans, orange wine, backless chairs, legs, « portes béantes », car-gripping hands of curious children, peal of motor scooter, bus, rumble of Pride, Wet Hot European Summer, « negative capability » of the floor, as our guest named it, & speaking of her, Catherine Barnett. 🩵

Parisians, this Saturday, June 28th, from 14-16h, we'll be hosting American poet Catherine Barnett at Mnemosynes: A Paris Poetry Series. Join us at Rerenga Wines in the 10th for natural wine, books, poems, and intimate exchange!

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

Tell me without telling me you’re a fan of Georges Brassens. In fact make me completely forget him. One of the best rearrangements I’ve ever heard : m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Xt...

In case you missed it this morning...

"Or it could be said when imagination catches fire, it ends up a fuse and political." -Nicole Brossard, translated by Barbara Godard

Some girls are more deciduous than others. Some awakenings more past-icular. Happy to have a new sonnet - one I originally drafted in French and migrated to English - in the wonderful @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Thank you, @leepottspoet.bsky.social!

NEW POEM #242: "Girl à feuilles caduques" by Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) "I know a bed can hold more than a sleeping body. / I know a body can hold more than a sleeping girl." stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

Wow, so proud of all peaceful protestors in all 50 states. No Kings in the USA. Y’all means all. In solidarity 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️— Paris to Birmingham, AL.

"Mon petit accent" is an essay about how the sentence "I grew up in Alabama," regardless of what I’m wearing or in what context I find myself, has changed almost every first conversation I’ve had with someone & many a conversation had with self. spiritualmaterial.substack.com/p/mon-petit-...

I’m resurrecting this poem from 2019 in a sort of personal research project into what I’m doing in my poetics visiting all of these mis-visited women artists. #karendalton www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhFP...

What do you do when your artistic life & prerogatives are, despite your efforts, getting stifled under institutional & organizational tacit promises which depend on you being a "good girl" & not saying what you really feel, but more than that after years of research, what you really think & know?

Great questions!!!🦋

I would still like to read on this if anyone has any suggestions. Or if anyone is writing on independent presses who are struggling, with their growth, to assume their now "mainstream" aesthetic and veering-towards corporate business mindset in planning print run numbers, titles, authors, etc.

I didn't know I would become this person (even after all this while of being a poet), but I definitely am now one of those annoying translators who believes that only people who write verse should translate verse. Isn't it Meschonnic who says this? Yes, I think this is really important.

If one more French person of the institution tells me that my written French is not native-sounding enough, too literary, or doesn't "have" sense, I will be forced to scream at you excerpts from my perfectly strange, unapologetically poetic, elusive yet effusive everyday English communication.

Not sure I’ll ever get over people calling poetry projects niche when what they’re otherwise proposing is a publication full of "content" paired with "sexy Paris café" photography.

i have deep and abiding love for @verseofapril.bsky.social and @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social, and the work they both create

How many more pieces on "how to be an artist in despairing times" and "joy is my resistance work" do we have to go through before we see your art and your resistance?

Hier, je crois, si c’est encore moi, l’être qui aurait survécu à tous les nous de majesté.

Nicole Brossard, translated by Barbara Godard. The first time I’ve loved a translation. Most of the time I get stuck in the blues of them.

Thank you, Alice Notley.

And if you are confused or angry about the submissions process, I urge you to become a poetry reader for a journal you admire; become part of the community; contribute to the work. It is not easy, or light. But it is joyful. And it will open your mind to the work being done in community.

I don’t know who needs to hear it…but poems get accepted because someone liked the poem. ❤️

"I submit: the more our lives are governed by the great mix-master of egotistic, material, and technostructural forces, the more distorted the whole business of living and creating becomes" -- C.D Wright, Cooling Time

If you want to praise a 'forgotten' writer, try quoting HER work, writing about HER, not 'resurrecting' her behind the façades of others who, not by talent alone we know, came to have huge careers. Isn't this nepotism, even retrospectively acted, how 'forgetting' people started in the first place?

I like Springtime in Paris because I'll never get over the beauty of the urban body going to its terrasse with all the vulnerability its been sort of slinking about in winter truancy and deciding, yes making a firm resolution, to take a huge gulp of Vitamin D right in the blooming iris of its eye.

I wrote the first "Motherhood Poem" last year, against the genre, against the preciousness of your regard. They are my "crunchy" motherhood poems as Lisa Pasold dubbed them. Thank you to Westerly Magazine for publishing this first batch. Order the issue (hard copy or PDF) at the link in comments.

Happy #PubDay to Alina Stefanescu’s MY HERESIES!! In these poems, @alinaetc.bsky.social probes the boundaries the sacred and the profane—a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood. Get your copy at the link in our bio!

63% of UA faculty said anti-DEI campaigns are making it more difficult to do their jobs. www.al.com/news/2025/04...

To quickly note that my mesmerizing peer, Carrie Chappell, has a new book out, a co-translation with Amanda Murphy, that you will want to devour. And of course @asterismbooks.bsky.social has a copy you can order!! asterismbooks.com/product/cass...

Today’s Find: “Loving Tallulah Bankhead” a 2022 collection of poems by #Birmingham #Alabama native Carrie Chappell carriechappell.com/about

Carrie Chappell, Bill Lavender, and Amanda Murphy hanging out by Rodrigo’s pool — yes, I recommend the book they all have a hand in at link below. 🫶 www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...

“The function of writing is to explode one’s subject — transform it into something else. (Writing is a series of transformations.)” -- Susan Sontag