Working on poems about family? I’m here to help! Back Down Memory Lane, a generative workshop on 7/18.

I grew up in the shadow of this remarkable woman, thanks to the movement she sparked. So glad to see her remembered here!

Join us tomorrow Tuesday April 23rd!

Calling all translators of Ukrainian literature!

Suffering people, killed children, our beatiful southeren heart, Odesa, today. War is always about people, not about numbers of victims.

Reading my translations of the magnificent Azerbaijani author Akram Aylisli today at 11–join us!

Tomorrow in Kensington, MD--see you there! Bergstrom Press & Books

🇺🇦🕯️Ukraine is losing its best and brightest

Sudan: One Year of Atrocities Requires New Global Approach hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

Voices of freedom: сontemporary writing from Ukraine. Tha antology containing my poems my poems in Katherine Young (Katherine E. Young), Amelia Glaser (@aglaser) and Yuliya Ilchuk translations.

Editors: Kateryna Kazimirova and Daryna Anastasieva.

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Don't miss this incredible opportunity to see #JamesBaldwin through the eyes of his friend and biographer #DavidLeeming #Baldwin100 and Smithsonian 's own Tulani Salahu-Din & University of Michigan Prof. Emeritus Nicholas Delbanco +

Please help support WTAW Press (the publisher of my collection) in the wake of its distributor's failure!

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Calling all translation fans! I'm reading the work of Azerbaijan's inimitable Akram Aylisli next Sunday at the Kensington Day of the Book Festival in Maryland. Join me and the terrific folks Bergstrom Press & Books at 11 a.m.!

Applications for the 2024 Granum Prizes open May 1! A $5K Prize will be awarded to a writer to support the completion of a poetry, fiction, or nonfiction manuscript. A $1,500+ Translation Prize will be awarded to support a work of translation. Read more: granumfoundation.org/granum-prize.

Busboys and Poets presents Nikki Giovanni in Fairfax on the 23rd! busboysandpoets.com/events/th-evt-… RSVP ASAP - Filling up fast! Leeya Mehta A Shallal GMU English FairfaxCity.com

Spring always reminds me of impressionism. So I've prepared a thread for you about amazing 🇺🇦 impressionist – Oleksandr Murashko. Enjoy, read, share 🌸🌷

'Sunday', 1911

Writer Selahattin Demirtaş turns 51 today. This is the eighth birthday he spends behind bars. #Türkiye must abide by ECHR CEDH rulings and release him now. #FreeDemirtaş #SelahattinDemirtaş

Marvelous interview from Jack Boulware about the long shadow Russia/Russian lit casts over a terrific American writer, Olga Zilberbourg, Olga Zilberbourg. Special thanks for the shoutout to my work with #AkramAylisli , Olga! jackboulware.substack.com/p/olga-zilberb…

Global Africa Translation Fellowship application cycle is open. Deadline June 1.
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Translators: can you recommend a good recent summary of the arguments AGAINST using italics for words that don't originate in English? Just came up against a set of style guidelines that could use updating, and I'd like some backup. Thanks! chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html