I'm *overjoyed* to be a winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize for my debut collection, to be published by my dream press, @BloodaxeBooks! Deepest of agradecimientos to Neil Astley, the judges, @NCLA_tweets @Natteitler @BernardineEvari @ace_national. This is life-changing. #DYCP

Before, a poem by Amada Libertad, tr. @TheChronotope:

Proud & agradecida to have contributed to this folio of Salvadoran women writers & translators, edited by Maryam Ivette Parhizkar & Óscar Moisés Díaz for FENCE, with my translations of the brilliant Jacinta Escudos @jacintario & the mighty Amada Libertad.

"leaves are more than syllables" Linda Pastan:

How to read everything? Still pinching myself that my @NewDirections book about a bellicose grammarian is on this @nationalbook list. As Tom Hulce's spellbound Wolfie says, when sampling hair-metal wigs in Amadeus: 'They’re all so beautiful. Why don’t I have 3 heads?' Or 30.

Here is an excerpt from the opening pages, in my translation, courtesy of @lithub and @NewDirections https://t.co/ObBfvfjcDY #NationalBookAwards #Latinx #Translation #Colombia #Fiction #Medellin

We're in El @ElEspectador, the newspaper of my childhood. https://t.co/zimS8K7afd #FernandoVallejo #Latinx #Translation #Colombia #NationalBookAwards

Brava!!! Yvette Siegert long listed for the National Book Award for her translation of Fernando Vallejo’s The Abyss.

Congratulations to Solvej Balle and Barbara J. Haveland, and Fernando Vallejo and Yvette Siegert (@TheChronotope). We're very excite to see ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME Book I and THE ABYSS on this year's NBA longlist.

See the 10 books nominated for the 2024 @NationalBook Award for Translated Literature.

Prize lists are always incomplete, and the longlist for this year’s National Book Award is very much not an exception to that rule. Lots of books I love didn’t make it, but I hope readers will be able to connect with some of the great ones that did.

I’ve been offline and therefore utterly stunned to be on this longlist for the National Book Award, for my translation of Fernando Vallejo’s masterpiece, THE ABYSS, a project ten years in the works that has woven through a complex trajectory of my life. Grateful.

“...he walked right past without saying hello, went up the stairs, reached the room at the far end of the house, collapsed on the bed, and slipped into a coma.” Read from @Fer_Vallejo’s novel The Abyss, translated by @TheChronotope. https://t.co/c64FsgFUUT

Even when I disagreed with her interpretation of a poem, that reading still seemed so infallible, indelible, beautiful. Coming of Age As a Poet changed my life. How much she taught us, and did for us. My heart aches, and we’ll always miss her. 💔📚

RIP, dear Helen Vendler. I’ll never forget her sitting me down and plotting a way for me to go study with her. Or the delight of hearing her rooster-watch crow — say, in the midst of her reading Stevens. Then a giggle, as if the rooster had been conjured by the words themselves.

🥹🥰 My heart, gratitude, & alumna solidarity with these students who are resisting outrageous, unprecedented, & violent intimidation from @Columbia while creating a better society on lawns designed for such gathering & inquiry. #CielitoLindo #Gaza #GazaSolidarityEncampment

As my employer - @Columbia University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

What’s left of blue is woven dark in iron lines —César Vallejo, translated by Yvette Siegert https://t.co/kYlxZgC5mO

Dear lovely community, We wanted to write to you to thank you for your ongoing love and support in this time of great need and such immensity. We want to thank you all for helping us to meet the £80,000 target we set. We've now extended our target. https://t.co/CtApQTcYvx

I still can’t entirely believe @DBGerrard is gone. Please consider donating to this fund to support David’s family:

I’ll be sleeping but please join — tonight, 19h Eastern! Registration is free at the link. 👩🏻‍🎨 📚 🖊️ 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🕊️