Marialena Carr

Congratulations! Bravo.🔥

There are 12 mentors in 2026:

📚 Children’s Lit from a South Asian Language w. @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
📚 Japanese w. @tnieda.bsky.social
📚 Kannada w. Deepa Bhasthi
📚 Korean Poetry w. @daybreakjung.bsky.social
📚 Korean Prose w. Janet Hong

Translators: run—don't walk— to apply. I was a mentee last year & it was fabulous. The mentors are extremely knowledgeable & generous, the mentees are inspiring, @kelsivanada.bsky.social runs the program like a symphony conductor, @littranslate.bsky.social is THE organization for translators. Apply!

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And thank you to @mptmagazine.bsky.social for participating with their wonderful archives in the contest.

Congratulations to Rucha Virmani and all the other commended poets!

What an honor that she chose to respond to my translation of Felícia Fuster’s poem ‘And more II’ from the Modern Poetry in Translation archives.

Laughing

Oh my gosh!!! 🪼💙🪼💙🪼💙!!!

🧪 The proposed budgets for NIH, NASA, and NSF would be at their lowest levels in over 25 years.

These are not serious requests, and Congress should not treat them as such.

But Congress also needs to be actively told that. Let your voice be heard: 5calls.org

I'm genuinely SO excited about the new ocean map that will be at the heart of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich when this hall reopens on June 7th. It's an unusual ocean-focussed map with so much detail, and it's just brilliant. 🌊🌊 Here's a sneak peak.
www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocea...

A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Join us for a vigil today at 6pm in support of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike.

Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

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The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access.

essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Here’s what to do if your NEA grant has been terminated. Last week, hundreds of publishers, theatre companies, symphonies, and community arts programs abruptly lost funding. Beloved institutions from the Bay Area to Harlem were rudely informed of cancele…

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social offers some support for former NEA grant recipients.

🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired.

In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.”

High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF

Devastating letter from our friends at the NEA Literature office

What a time to be trying to promote anything, I know. I'm trying to keep it to the barest minimum. But 1) this is how I make a living and 2) fiction still matters. Our novels still matter. Coming together as a group to talk about our art still matters.

Are you struggling with your novel? It's okay. It happens to ALL of us. My 3-week course, Getting Your Novel Unstuck, returns next month. It's designed to get your novel draft moving again with a fresh charge of energy and a solid plan to carry you forward to the end.
cariluna.com/getting-your...

Wow! No rambling. This is wonderful. I cannot wait to read it. Congratulations. (and great cover!)

Idols Then, when we lay embracing at the window open to the slope of olive trees (two seeds in one fruit split apart by summer, and filled with air) we had no memories. We were the memory we have now. We were this image. The idols of ourselves in the submissive faith of afterward. Gabriel Ferrater, translated by Adrian Nathan West from #Catalan

'We
were the memory we have now. We
were this image. The idols of ourselves
in the submissive faith of afterward.'

Gabriel Ferrater, translated by Adrian Nathan West from #Catalan

Does US science have a future in Antarctica? Trump cuts threaten to cancel fieldwork and more Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been reduced, and the agency faces steeper cuts soon.

I wrote about Trump cuts at the ends of the Earth, to NSF support of science in Antarctica. 🧪

“We’re all trying to find other ways of doing our research,” says @leighstearns.bsky.social, “because they are not the stable entity.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fight the Fools on April Fools' Day In store book giveaway With Celeste Ng & Lauren Groff On Tyranny Blueprint for Revolution On Disinformation Big Dirty Money Can't make it in store? Receive 10% off these titles April 1-7 at Thelynxbooks.com

Not an April Fools' joke: I'm partnering w/ @legroff.bsky.social & her amazing bookstore The Lynx to give away free books on fighting fascism. FL folks, just stop in and ask for a free copy of the titles below! Not in FL? Order and get 10% off. Read, share, fight the fascist fools. ❤️👊

📣NEW Sabin Center report on the Attribution Science & Climate Law Conference: scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climat...
🌎 The conference brought together researchers to discuss the status of climate attribution research and its relevance to climate law & policy
Check out the 🪡⤵️

'We have coyotes with wolf blood in their veins in New York City because we tried to exterminate wolves. Tell me that doesn’t make your heart sing, just a little bit."

Wonderful science-y ode to the coyote!

Such a fun conversation! Thank you @mptmagazine.bsky.social! Thank you Ron Puppo and AKaiser!

MPT Podcast | Catalan Edition - Modern Poetry in Translation Ronald Puppo speaks to AKaiser and Marialena Carr

NEW PODCAST: CATALAN EDITION

Featuring poetry and translation from MPT Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan, hosted by Ronald Puppo with AKaiser and Marialena Carr

modernpoetryintranslation.com/mpt-podcast-...

The eagle-eyed may notice that we have a brand new website 👀.

Gift article for that Atlantic story on the illegal Signal group chat.🎁

How Literary Magazines Work with the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of The Common + Writing Mentors: What Makes a Great One?

Ever wanted to go behind the scenes with The Common?

Don't miss the newest episode of bestselling novelist Evelyn Skye's Creative.Inspired.Happy podcast, featuring TC Editor in Chief Jen Acker and Managing Editor Emily Everett!

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I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Mahmoud Khalil Is One of the Most Upstanding People I Have Ever Met We cannot allow fascists to use the pretext of Jewish safety to attack our communities.

Must read. More of this please. You will NOT disappear and destroy people in our name. Safety through solidarity.
zeteo.com/p/i-am-jewis...