AWP (Associated Writers & Writing Programs) is banning dissent and curtailing free speech at their annual conference. Consider expressing your concern at this sign-on letter. www.change.org/p/awp-don-t-...

We are looking for a new series co-editor for Best Literary Translations! Deadline to apply is Monday, August 4! www.deepvellum.org/news/call-fo...

Bay Area folx! I am coming your way for a book launch at SF's Medicine for Nightmares on Tues, May 27, in conversation with the wonderful multilingual writer / critic Britta Stronmeyer, and would love to see you there! medicinefornightmares.com/events/deep-...

Plenty of grim news out there, but here's one point of light ~ today is pub day for BLT 2025!! Read it for brilliance coming to the U.S. from all over the world, from Algeria to the Faroe Islands to Puel Mapu to Ukraine! store.deepvellum.org/products/bes...

Seattle-area folks ~ Would love to see you at Third Place Books Ravenna on Monday, May 5! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/wendy-...

Longest letter to the editor I've ever had published (this one co-written with the fabulous Whitney DeVos) is up World Literature Today's website. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/transla...

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All praise to Representatives R Tlaib (MI), M Pocan and G Moore (WI), N Valasquez (NY), D Ramirez (IL), I Omar (MN), J Crockett and A Green (TX), S Lee (PA), A Pressley and J McGovern (MA), L Simon (CA), A Carson (IN), and N Williams (GA) Shame on ALL others. What will happen when they come for you?

Even as things grow grim and grimmer in the U.S., poetry shines a light. It's lovely to see this book still getting attention, more than a year after publication. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/mike...

“The Houses of Your Village Have Eyes.” A Poem by Irma Pineda, in Three Languages The houses of your village have eyes that seek the beach’s sandgrains in the distance they see the sun that doesn’t shine on their heads today doesn’t brighten their shingle-tresses [...] lithub.com/the-houses-o...

Applications (simple & quick app!) are open for just TWO more days for our nine-day writing & yoga retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico, in late September. Generous scholarships for BIPOC writers! www.wendycall.com/farawaynearb...

Two more weeks to apply for our September retreat in Oaxaca! (...AKA an eight-day respite from the madness....) www.wendycall.com/farawaynearb...

Please spread the word! Tomorrow (Jan 8, 2025) is the LAAAAST day to nominate translations for the next edition of Best Literary Translations -- for work published in US magazines & journals in 2024. deepvellum.submittable.com/submit/30860...