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Translator of Yiddish poetry Co-editor of Tern Journal https://ternjournal.org/ she/זי

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Short, pithy, actionable zine. Print version threaded below! #DHmakes

07.09.2025 22:56 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Project MUSE - Dictionary Poetics

Found someone who cares about dictionaries and poetry at the same time! (Have we written about everything already?!! JESUS). Reading intro now.

Dworkin, Craig. Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. Fordham University Press, 2020. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/pub/93/monog....

05.08.2025 15:31 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

less than two weeks left to send in work!

19.07.2025 22:32 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Submissions OPEN for the Wisconsin Poetry Series! The wonderful Erika Meitner is stepping in as senior editor and at the mazing Nate Marshall as associate editor. I am stepping away from the regular series but still editing the Translation Prize!

10.07.2025 21:39 — 👍 31    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
MPT logo and the text 'submissions now open'

MPT logo and the text 'submissions now open'

We are now open for general submissions.

Submit translations of poems from any language into English.

Deadline: 15 August 2025. modernpoetryintranslation.submittable.com/submit/10070...

15.07.2025 10:29 — 👍 15    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 3
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What's up, world? We're Chaski Review, a new literary magazine ready to publish you! Find out more at chaskireview.com

15.07.2025 20:38 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

So excited for the not not Sopranos project!

12.07.2025 02:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada (translated by Susan Bernofsky)

11.07.2025 20:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Best wishes! ♥️💕

11.07.2025 07:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Attn: translators! Two Lines Press has two open calls for submission right now, both due July 6th!

26.06.2025 20:35 — 👍 18    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1
Prizes New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

Translation Prize alert: @ndbooks.bsky.social, @giramondobooks.bsky.social, and @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
just announced they're taking submission for their Poetry in Translation Prize July 15 - Aug. 15. www.ndbooks.com/prizes/

26.06.2025 18:46 — 👍 16    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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You know what time it is!

In collaboration with Exchanges at the University of lowa, the Turkoslavia translators collective welcomes submissions of prose and poetry translated from Turkic and Slavic languages (loosely defined) into English to be published in Fall 2025.

13.06.2025 19:53 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

😍😍🌈🌈

06.06.2025 18:44 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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One month left! Submit by JULY 6: Open call for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico/Two Lines Press collection. www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

06.06.2025 19:13 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality*
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern

Frank O’Hara

*our rainbow logo, happy pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53219/...

06.06.2025 19:17 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Translation Contracts 101 - The Authors Guild Literary translators deserve recognition and compensation for their labor and creative work. While the royalties are typically low due to revenues being split between multiple parties, a publishing co...

The Authors Guild is hosting its translation contracts panel again next Wednesday, May 14—! More info: authorsguild.org/event/transl...

08.05.2025 13:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

06.05.2025 10:51 — 👍 642    🔁 309    💬 32    📌 37

Thank you for visiting us, @oskarcz.bsky.social!

21.04.2025 16:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Launching MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan'
YouTube video by MPT Magazine Launching MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan'

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Launching MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan'

MPT Managing Editor Sarah Hesketh was joined by guests Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo, for readings from the issue as well as a Q&A.

Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhR...

07.02.2025 11:10 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy My first experience reading the shocking, hilarious and ingenious work of Michel Nieva was in 2021, after he was named as one of Granta’s 25 best young Spanish-language novelists. A scout sent me v…

I wrote my first ever translator's note about the insane process of turning La Infancia del Mundo into Dengue Boy, today on @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/inside-the-c...

05.02.2025 10:45 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 3

Looking forward to reading this!

05.02.2025 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Summer School with POLIN Museum for Early Career Scholars | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie Organizujemy tygodniowy program skierowany do doktorantów i doktorów na wczesnym etapie kariery.

Big announcement!

POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28).

POLIN is offering very generous financial support.

More details below.

Please share!

polin.pl/en/event/sum...

04.02.2025 09:19 — 👍 31    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0
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ANMLY Submission Manager **ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

ANMLY is only open for ONE more day!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap39

30.01.2025 19:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation. It’s a funny time to think about national reading habits. I’ve been looking for escape pods, personally. Books that take me far from this particular time and zip code. Perhaps riding th…

What books should you read this year? Try books in translation.

25.01.2025 20:00 — 👍 51    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity

No cover yet, but we have a final title, a price, a page count, and jacket copy, so it’s feeling real! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

26.01.2025 02:09 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 0
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ANMLY Submission Manager **ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

ANMLY is now open for new work for 10 more days!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap39

21.01.2025 20:15 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Exciting news #dhjewish #yiddish: the Yiddish Book Center has updated its full-text search site: ocr.yiddishbookcenter.org

21.01.2025 09:51 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Looking forward to presenting at @farbindungen.bsky.social soon and attending these amazing panels and workshops!

21.01.2025 19:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations! 🥳

16.01.2025 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In this personal essay, translator Nathan Dize discovers striking links between the fiction he translates and his own family history. Read “Translator’s Notes”: https://buff.ly/40dhJIi

15.01.2025 14:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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