Come write with me at the 92nd Street Y this winter: Feb 17 to March 10 on Zoom, 4 classes reading and workshopping poems. From Miroslav Holub to Gwendolyn Brooks, Michael Palmer to Dg Nanouk Okpik. lnkd.in/e4DMpx_A

Conversation about poetry between the wonderful Phillis Levin and me in @commonmag.bsky.social www.thecommononline.org/hitting-a-wa...

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

New Chamber Ballet's Poet-in-Residence and Happier Far author dianemehta.bsky.social‬ captures the essence of three dance scenes in her new piece for The ‪parisreview.bsky.social‬. Check it out here: https://loom.ly/Wh4C114

Re-upping this given today's awful news about curtailing medical care for our trans fellow citizens: lithub.com/how-trumps-a...

"Each dance is a small—four- or five-minute—collaboration." Clair Wills on dancing, and talking about dance. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

An important book, take notice!

Sharing this piece, my favorite from my essay collection, which I read at @interintellect.bsky.social last week.

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!

Fantastic night at a packed house thx to @peninaroth.bsky.social

MONDAY, 8PM: Can't wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night with acclaimed authors Jamie Hood, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social! #Free, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights

After playing anagrams for several hours via Game Pigeon on my phone with my son, who is in college, he wrote between classes and said, “Mom, stop.” Fun to write this for @oldstermag.bsky.social thank you @saribotton.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/word-games

Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

Proud of this essay! Thx @ditmaslit.bsky.social 8pm looking forward to reading for and with you at Urbane Arts Club in Brooklyn 4/23 at 8pm.

These funding cut offs—like those at Penn, Columbia, etc.—are illegal. Will anyone sue to vindicate their interests, or those of students, staff, and the general public?

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

Mike Johnson changed the House rules so that a vote for Congress to reclaim authority to do tariffs will never be scheduled, by declaring the rest of this Congressional term one single calendar day. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/house-quie.... He could fix all of this before the US markets open.

@dianemehta.bsky.social reflects on racism, religious experiences, and how visions of freediving helped her finish her novel.

Today @dianemehta.bsky.social takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. Her memoir-in-essays, "Happier Far," is just out from University of Georgia press. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

“This slim volume is packed with poetic and penetrating insights into the human condition,” writes Lauren Gilbert, in a review of Diane Mehta’s book, HAPPIER FAR: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/happier... #essays #book #newbook #DianeMehta @dianemehta.bsky.social

Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 4/23! We’re excited to welcome Anton Solomonik, @dianemehta.bsky.social, @joannanovak1986.bsky.social, & Timothy Ree. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

I hope you will come to one of my bookstore events! Happier Far launches in 3 days.. March 20 P&T Knitwear with Vivian Gornick ($7) April 15 Community Books w/Minna Zallman Proctor

A celebration of an incredible new essay collection, "Happier Far": @notorioustib.bsky.social is hosting @dianemehta.bsky.social on Interintellect 📖 Online and April 10! Tix: interintellect.com/salons/what-... Find an expert - the essay Her Greatest Hits - here: longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...

Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including THE FAREWELL LIGHT by Nidia Hernández @nidiahernandez.bsky.social and TINY EXTRAVAGANZAS by @dianemehta.bsky.social in their reading list for Women’s History Month 2025! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Anticipating the release of my book Happier Far next week, I wrote this piece about my mother’s letters home, and her reading, when she was in her twenties and on her first European tour. Link at JBC or my website for my book! xo

Everyone read passionately tonight. A joy! The room was rapt. Thx Kevin Young, 92nd St Y, New Yorker, Deb Garrison, Terrance Hayes, Richie Hoffman, Eliza Griswald, Mary Carr, Mary Jo Bang, and Ed Hirsch. Get the book! I love the 60s/70s. Find the Howard Hughes poem. bit.ly/4hOv7dz

"We spend our whole lives learning that we already have everything we need to survive. We torture our spirits and try not to bleed out, hoping that we have gambled on the right life with the right people." @dianemehta.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/18/h...

Eager to read @tracyslater.bsky.social book and it couldn't be more timely, about a Jewish woman who demands that the US government imprison her with her Japanese-American husband and their son.

Diane Mehta @dianemehta.bsky.social 's lovely poem "Backbend" at the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Just preordered Happier Far by the amazing @dianemehta.bsky.social from @ugapress.bsky.social & cannot wait to read it! "Propulsive & ironic, sly & profound" about her mixed Indian-Jain & Jewish-American heritage & "the demands of love, marriage, divorce, & parenting" ugapress.org/book/9780820...

Honored to be a judge for the 2025 Silvers-Dudley Prizes for longform journalism. Winners in literary criticism Christopher Tayler and Louis Menand, arts crit Helen Shaw and Judith Thurman, journalism Gary Younge and William Finnegan. silversfoundation.org/2025-silvers...

Excited to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize for my essay on the friendship between Dante and Virgil and how it motivated me to seek out collaborations with other artists and live life more fully and slower that way bit.ly/4fjZR4A

Poet in residence at New Chamber Ballet in NYC; this poem about one of the dancers is in the @newyorker.com.web.brid.gy

Cover of my book Happier Far: Essays out in March 2025 with University of Georgia Press

We are delighted to announce that this year's winner of the Derek Walcott Prize, chosen by @dianemehta.bsky.social is Antonella Anedda for her book HISTORIAE: www.nyrb.com/products/his... Learn more: arrowsmithpress.com/walcott @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Unburied Books invited me to talk about Dante's Inferno. Timestamps: 7:35 to be as good as God, 22 Giotto, 27 Irish/music, 42:20 men walking, 48:50 friendship, 54 death/letting go, 56 Geryon-Ugolino, 1:09 fallible Virgil, 1:12 ballet. 1:14 self-deception and one's best possible work. bit.ly/3GEa5xk

Thank you Publishers Weekly for the starred review and for noticing the rhythms and sounds I care so much about! www.publishersweekly.com/9798987924112

On the ferry boat to Purgatory with an angel by my side BL Egerton 943, f.65r @BLMedieval

Snap of me reading a 5p poem from Tiny Extravaganzas and having everyone rapt for 10 min, amazingly. Thank you musicians for training me to read more powerfully.

Sunday book party cake for 40!

36:39 You can steal one word. I might steal a rhythm for the duration of a few seconds. And don't listen to me, i shove the word love in everywhere. bit.ly/49PRnQT @arrowsmithpress M.P. Carver interview on Tiny Extravaganzas

Back to Dante's Inferno, 2nd round with my Civitella friends, this time thinking more about Aristotle and looking more closely at the Italian, and using every translation but defaulting to the Princeton literal prose edition.

My first piece for The Times Literary Supplement, a delight, and a lot of research on Whitman's poems, his prose (all of it), and two centuries of Jewish-American poetry. bit.ly/40iQ5JN

Come to my book launch Nov 2 in Boston! Excited to be in the mix with @clmerrill.bsky.social and Steven Cramer.

New poem at Poetry Northwest, in generous celebration of my book, out now. bit.ly/3JHkcUf (order from Arrowsmith) www.poetrynw.org/diane-mehta-...

"At first, I wanted to borrow from the rhythms that musicians were using, but then I realized that I could borrow rhythms from my own speech." bit.ly/3ZZFvHi (Pleased to talk about writing with Poets & Writers)

Illuminated manuscript for a choir book, in library at San Marco museum in Florence. Renaissance and medieval collection.