CJ Evans

CJ Evans

@categoryofoutcast.bsky.social

Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.

7,184 Followers 306 Following 211 Posts Joined Aug 2023
3 weeks ago

Ferroequinologist.

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Planning on it! Should be a good one...

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6 months ago

😺

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6 months ago

Love these books like I love you like I love cats like I love good totes and all those things are one in a Two Lines membership. ❤️

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8 months ago

Seattle Supersonics.

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9 months ago
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9 months ago
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Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section

When you cut arts coverage. When you print ads like news. When AI becomes a writing “tool”.

chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...

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10 months ago

What do you plan to spend all that hoarded wealth on?

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10 months ago

Beautiful things are wasteful spending.

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10 months ago

Is it time to eat the rich yet? I’m getting pretty hungry.

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10 months ago

The only way I can explain it to myself is people apparently care as much about the arts as I do about AI emoji generators.

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10 months ago

It’s like people hate joy and want to kill it with exposition.

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10 months ago

One of my least favorite things is writers, artists, translators, whatever explaining the things they made. Sucks all the magic out of the room.

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11 months ago

Rilke would have loved 90s TV

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11 months ago

[almost deadly birds of the soul]

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11 months ago

Every angel is terrifying.

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11 months ago
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The Stevns Translation Prize The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...

There's still time to submit to the Stevns Translation Prize! The package includes mentorship, a French farmhouse retreat, and a deal with both Two Lines Press and Peirene Press. More details here: www.stevnstranslationprize.com

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1 year ago

Publishing would be in a much better spot if we were all a bit less efficient. If writers were slower, editors were slower, the cycle of new books was just slowed down.

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1 year ago

So happy to see Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott get this recognition for this absolute force of a book. I’ve never read anything like it and I’m so proud @twolinespress.bsky.social got to publish it in the US and to have partnered with the peerless @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in the U.K.!

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The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...

Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize

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1 year ago
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🎉 Happy pub date to Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro! 🎉 Pick up a copy at your local independent bookstore or order directly from us www.catranslation.org/shop/book/th...

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1 year ago

Poetry is a sword of lightning. Take that Thomas Love Peacock.

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1 year ago

The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry

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1 year ago
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There’s something so humble and human about this P.S. from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social It quieted the noise for a minute. Their spring books look 🔥 too. Buy good books from good people. uglyducklingpresse.org

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1 year ago
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Images of Women | Elvira Navarro | Granta ‘In the years before his stroke, just how many times had her father told a woman he loved her after dating for two or three weeks?’ Fiction by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney.

Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney, in Granta.

VOICES OF ADRIANNA is forthcoming from @twolinespress.bsky.social on February 18.

granta.com/images-of-wo...

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Jenny Holzer.

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1 year ago
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Richard Siken

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1 year ago
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The Stevns Translation Prize The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...

Submissions are now open for the Stevn's Prize! Two Lines Press is seeking emerging French to English translators. To learn more please visit: www.stevnstranslationprize.com

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OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.

Karma’s a bitch, dude.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...

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