August 2025 Round-Up is finally live on my blog! Check it out for links to great poems and art that I read in August. Let me know if you have recommendations for me, too!

August 2025 Round-Up is finally live on my blog! Check it out for links to great poems and art that I read in August. Let me know if you have recommendations for me, too!

I just attended this fantastic panel on the politics of translation @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social . Really great listening to @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social Lynn Kozak and James Redfield discuss their approaches to translation with Lauren K. Wolfe! www.youtube.com/live/Rdr1KLz...

Recommend me some reads for what summer remains!

Great thread with a strong applicability to literature considered to be part of any canon, not just SFF. Also, these books are there to inform YOUR individual taste. As a reader, you’ll grow a personal canon, evolving over time. That’s good, don’t let others tell you who you must be.

My round-up for July is up on my blog, a lot of great poetry, writing and art that I recommend, with some extended thoughts about much of it, particularly translation. Would love to hear what art has moved you lately, let me know! nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/j...

My round-up for July is up on my blog, a lot of great poetry, writing and art that I recommend, with some extended thoughts about much of it, particularly translation. Would love to hear what art has moved you lately, let me know! nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/j...

My wife surprised me with a copy of @aestallings.bsky.social translation of The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice, a perfect gift. Stallings’ translation flows wonderfully. I love the persona of the scholar A. Nony Mouse. Grant Silverstein’s illustrations make a fantastic addition to the poem.

So far, gotten two rejections, but one of them included some kind words about how engaging my subject matter and approach are. Calling it a win

Whirlwind trip to the poetry festival has been completed. Great to see all the poets, and pick up more poetry books to add to my overburdened ‘to read’ shelf. Now enjoying the modern miracle of air conditioning

Who else is at NYC Poetry Festival today?

Starting to send out queries for my Catullus 85 manuscript. I’m doing my best to overcome the desire to make the perfect query and thus never query until it’s perfect. They can’t say “yes” if you don’t ask, I remind myself, as I worry they can’t say “no” until I ask, either.

June 2025 Round-Up is posted to my blog, featuring some great poetry, writing, and other art that I experienced in June! What did you love in June? nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/j...

Ancient Exchanges journal of literary translations of ancient texts just put put their latest issue, Beyond, which includes 7 versions of Catullus 85 from my Catullus 85 manuscript! Check them out (and the rest of this amazing issue!) here exchanges.uiowa.edu/axbeyond-nis... #ancientbluesky #poetry

Hi! We're Aôthen, a magazine that publishes a wide range of work on the ancient Mediterranean. We aim to make classics more accessible for all through creative expression. You can read our previous issues & learn more about us here: buff.ly/3gjRWQG

Relatedly, can anyone recommend guidance on the process of querying publishers for poetry/translation manuscripts?

Ancient Exchanges journal of literary translations of ancient texts just put put their latest issue, Beyond, which includes 7 versions of Catullus 85 from my Catullus 85 manuscript! Check them out (and the rest of this amazing issue!) here exchanges.uiowa.edu/axbeyond-nis... #ancientbluesky #poetry

Long thread featuring a request for info about translation of propaganda, Akiko’s role as propagandist, and the role that creative or experimental translation might play on the subject.

I found this book about 10 years ago, Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: a feminist poet from Japan encounters prewar China by Yosano Akiko, translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Been thinking about it a lot recently, and looking for more on Akiko’s role as propagandist, suggestions welcome!

Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

Throwing it out there, any interesting recent writing out there about Augustus’ Res Gestae? Scholarly or otherwise #ancientbluesky #augustus

The kid version of Chappell Roan’s Hot to Go is a little weird

New post up on my blog! nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/m...

New post up on my blog! nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/m...

I did an interview with @haydensferryreview.bsky.social to talk about the two translations they published from my Catullus 85 manuscript in Issue 76, it was such a pleasure to sit with translation editor Brandon Blue’s thoughtful questions

What's the problem with declarations of a new translation's "authoritative" status? In an interview on her new book, Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska (@kaszyma.bsky.social) discusses the idiosyncrasies and possibilities of the practice of translation. @princetonupress.bsky.social

Check out these stylish readers!

In the latest interview in our 3 Questions series, hear from Matthew Nisinson, @mnisinson.bsky.social, whose translation of "Catullus 85" appears in HFR Issue 76, on why he felt compelled to translate a 2000-year-old poem 85 times: haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...

I did an interview with @haydensferryreview.bsky.social to talk about the two translations they published from my Catullus 85 manuscript in Issue 76, it was such a pleasure to sit with translation editor Brandon Blue’s thoughtful questions

New post up on my blog for April. As always, would love to hear what writing and art stood out to you in April, too!

New post up on my blog for April. As always, would love to hear what writing and art stood out to you in April, too!

Very excited to find my contributor copy of @haydensferryreview.bsky.social in my mailbox this evening! Two of my Catullus 85 translations found a great home in HFR’s Maximalism Folio. I can’t wait for folks to read them! #ancientbluesky

Very excited to find my contributor copy of @haydensferryreview.bsky.social in my mailbox this evening! Two of my Catullus 85 translations found a great home in HFR’s Maximalism Folio. I can’t wait for folks to read them! #ancientbluesky

Just finished reading Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad by Alice Oswald. What an amazing book! Oswald’s approach to the Iliad as an oral cemetery is brilliant, I’m struggling to say more than just pile on superlatives. My first Oswald book but not my last!

Long day, long week, but I’m ending the day with my hilarious kid and a pretty special acceptance of a group of my Catullus 85 translations. Gonna take that energy into the weekend

So excited for people to see these poems from my Catullus 85 manuscript!

What apps/programs do folks use for writing their poetry besides Word and Google Docs?

March Round-Up is now posted on my blog! Check it out, there’s a bunch of great writing and art from a bunch of people, plus some thoughts and photos from me. What’s some great art you encountered in March? #poetry

Chasing your child around a museum watching them fall in love with works of art over and over again is one of the best feelings in the world

Three more Catullus 85 poems accepted with a journal yesterday. Otherwise very busy day yesterday, so I’m giving myself some time to celebrate today

I did this round-up a little differently than past ones, with a bit more writing from me about what I likes about each piece I referenced or linked to.

Tired Sunday and I’m reading Paul Celan: Selected Works edited by Pierre Joris. This one, Psalm, struck me quite intensely. Translated by Cid Corman

I did this round-up a little differently than past ones, with a bit more writing from me about what I likes about each piece I referenced or linked to.

My latest blog round-up is here, celebrating one year of this! This one is chock full of great poems and other work. Let me know what your favorites are nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/f...

My latest blog round-up is here, celebrating one year of this! This one is chock full of great poems and other work. Let me know what your favorites are nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/f...

Thanks to Southern Humanities Review for publishing my poem about being and having a parent! And for sharing this excerpt on their twitter account. Hopefully they come to bluesky soon! Check out issue 57.4 with my work and so much more! www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/current-issu...

Got my first journal acceptance of 2025 today! And in a journal I really value too. Can’t wait for folks to read two more poems from my Catullus 85 manuscript

January 2025 round-up of poetry and other writing and art I loved is up now on my blog! What has been giving you life lately? nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/j...

In the below, I write a bit about spending a day at the Met communing with the art. I spent quite a bit of time with this Roman sarcophagus lid in the Greek and Roman wing. Watching other patrons react to it was also very rewarding.