Michael Bazzett

In the Translator's Workshop: Featuring Michael Bazzett on the Poetry of K’iche’ Maya poet, Humberto Ak’abal MICHAEL BAZZETT | Translating the poetry of K’iche’ Maya poet Humberto Ak’abal can sometimes feel like trying to grab a beam of sunlight.

I’m grateful to Amit Majmudar for including this brief essay in the marvelous series he curates for Marginalia Review of Books, “The Translator’s Workshop.” I do hope you enjoy it!

In the Translator's Workshop: Featuring Michael Bazzett on the Poetry of K’iche’ Maya poet, Humberto Ak’abal MICHAEL BAZZETT | Translating the poetry of K’iche’ Maya poet Humberto Ak’abal can sometimes feel like trying to grab a beam of sunlight.

I’m grateful to Amit Majmudar for including this brief essay in the marvelous series he curates for Marginalia Review of Books, “The Translator’s Workshop.” I do hope you enjoy it!

birth of an (abomi)nation

This is how I'm going to remember Baltimore...

...reveling in wondrous poetry in a candlelit tavern.

AWP was a beautiful blur, and it was such a delight to see so many of you lovelies.

This is how I'm going to remember Baltimore...

...reveling in wondrous poetry in a candlelit tavern.

AWP was a beautiful blur, and it was such a delight to see so many of you lovelies.

The world is being torn apart by rich men with new atrocities on the daily, and I have to remember that the school lunch app/vendor is called SchoolBitez so I can find it in my inbox.

A distillation of the cognitive dissonance of our times...

...and that "z" is perhaps the final violence.

"Poems by God" - the highly anticipated debut

Having Pete Hegseth in charge of the DOD has always felt like an insanely risky proposition. He's deeply unqualified, and is concerned with projecting dominance to the detriment of actual leadership.

Now though...feels like this could be a catastrophic failure of leadership.

Hey AWP'ers: What a blast Baltimore's been! I'll be signing copies of this little beauty at the Copper Canyon booth, tomorrow (Saturday), at 1:30... They've still got a half dozen left, and I'd love to see you! Hugs, knowing glances, earnest smiles, gentle ramshackle-ness, etc., will be on hand... ❤️

white supremacy.

Who else is excited for the AWP 2026 bookfair?! While you're there, don't miss these author signings at the Copper Canyon booths 1038 and 1040 on March 5–7!

Check out our complete author-signing schedule and stay tuned here for more updates on where to find Copper Canyon Press poets at #AWP2026!

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...from CLOUDWATCHER. Which is arriving in April. Like this poem. Yet also will never arrive, officially. Like this poem.

(Link to the Copper Canyon book page in comments... It truly does take a village, & I'm very grateful to mine, including so many of you.)

Forthcoming April 7: CLOUDWATCHER by MICHAEL BAZZETT, winner of the 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review!

In today's #coverfeature, BAZZETT tells us about the uncanny resemblance—and rightness—between his speaker, self, and cover figure:

I'm truly grateful that this is happening! (And I love this cover!) A thousand thanks @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social!

Opinion | They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be

My friend Will wrote an essay about what's been going on the last few months here in MPLS, and it is beautiful, and absolutely worth your time... (And don't be fooled by the NY Times headline; it may well make you tear up... ...but in a good way.)

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I'm truly grateful that this is happening! (And I love this cover!) A thousand thanks @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social!

“The working title of CLOUDWATCHER was actually 'Autobiography of a Poet,' and when I saw the artwork that became the cover of the book, I heard a ‘Yes’ in my brain along with feeling a ‘Yes’ in my body. Is this my speaker, head in clouds? Is this my mind, replaced by a cloud? . . .

Cloud Translation "And where that cloud ends and other clouds begin / is open to discussion, and that conversation / is ongoing and unending"

Feed: "Palette Poetry"
By: Michael Bazzett on Monday, February 9, 2026

New poem just went live at Palette Poetry 💜 🌨️

New poem just went live at Palette Poetry 💜 🌨️

It's great news, and the crew at Conduit really know what they're doing, so this simply means you're very close... It will happen! 💜 Congrats, and persist!

An Oral History of the Flat Earth by Michael Bazzett — Passages North Editorial intern Brandon Hofmann on today’s short: Every once in a while, we—modern, scientific, logical people—examine and reconfigure our knowledge when we discover proof of new facts. However, the...

New poem at Passages North 💜 Much gratitude to the editors! @passagesnorth.bsky.social

Ring camera search party™️ hits different with slavecatchers in your town

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

You're not producing a novel with AI. You're using an algorithm powered by other people's stolen novels to lie and pretend you're a writer. Being a writer requires WRITING, you pathetic fucks.