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Read @sashadm’s new book for 48 poems as brilliant as this one.
“A lot of the poems start from a place of anger,” @sashadm tells @jordanc_t about her new collection, “Joy Is My Middle Name.” “But then they change and get more complicated.”.
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RT @kfzbarrow: so many great things to read on your way to vote for zohran mamdani, in line to vote for zohran mamdani, on your way home fr….
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RT @thedrift_mag: This evening at 6:30 p.m., don’t miss @sashadm, @blk_blk_blk_blk, Grace Nissan, and @zhitzig at @karmakarma9
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So excited to hear what Zoë, Sasha, Ben, and Grace have to say & read. Plus the Karma Randy Wray show is gorgeous. Come listen with me!.
On Tuesday, May 20, we’re hosting an evening of readings and discussion about the state of poetry at Karma gallery, featuring @sashadm, @blk_blk_blk_blk, Grace Nissan, and @zhitzig
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(the syntax of this tweet demonstrates why i will only ever be a poser of a Poster).
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Twitter wasn't just for the Posters. as a passionate and proficient Lurker i will be attending this event as a quiet, semi-attentive, semi-distracted member of the audience. join me!.
Twitter has been declared dead many times over — and yet, we’re still here. On April 16, join The Drift, @bigblackjacobin, @willystaley, @SamAdlerBell, and @delia_cai in considering why — and what’s next. Moderated by @elenasb_. RSVP below!.
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To unbury the lede: redlining lives, redlining kills. "East of Lake" and "west of Lake" is still local shorthand for two different Altadenas. This is infuriating.
latimes.com
As the Eaton fire spread, many areas were notified of evacuation warnings and orders well in advance. In the heart of Altadena, where all 17 reported deaths occurred, evacuation orders came hours...
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new poem imminent.
Welcome your winter warriors of 2025 ❄️. Introducing the TOC for our winter issue feat. @sputnikon3 @jack_rockwell1 @BBW_BFF @edpazsoldan @JJGavilano @aHeartOfGould @WillVanderhyden @erosdiler @robinepmyers @Margo_Glantz @ellen_c_jones @mjnavia @anielasind @han_smith2 & more. 💥
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RT @nazhongwriting: Big thanks to @jordanc_t for commissioning the piece and guiding me through it & to the entire editorial team for their….
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Oh, and I should say: there’s more where these Dispatches come from. They join two excellent, evergreen essays — @Tiddlebits on Proust,.@sputnikon3 on the Latin American market — in the Drift x Translated Lit canon.
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The unnamed narrator of Valeria Luiselli’s 2011 novel Faces in the Crowd is a young Mexican woman living in Brooklyn and working, as many F-1 literary types do, at a small translation press.
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All made possible by @shrrreya_ @lyrawalshfuchs @rmpanovka @kfzbarrow @csestanovich and the rest of the @thedrift_mag team. S/o to @_iess_ for the divine diptych-y illos. Thanks for reading.
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Khoury, Durrell, Derrida, Lorentzen, Borges, Xue, Galeano — they're all hanging out in @zaintkhalid’s many-minded piece.
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On “the Anglophone literary sphere’s capacity to promote, then discard, its exotic others,” from @debhartha .
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A surprising, generative analogy via scholar extraordinaire Marta Figlerowicz: translated literature as foreign-language classroom.
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Carey Baraka plucks this sharp Sarr quote as he considers the influence and afterlives of the African Writers Series.
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If you haven’t read Bolaño’s brilliant short story “The Return,” you should — but first, read Angelo Hernandez Sias’s triumphant return to our pages, in which he reflects on Bolaño and the return turn.
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From @nazhongwriting, an account of a historical debate about Chinese translation fidelity that is, to borrow an acronym I heard recently, JPI — just plain interesting.
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Such a treat to work with Yasmin Zaher, whose debut novel is on every best-of-2024 list, and who opens the section with this bolt.
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