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* Celebrating WIT * Women in Translation * thanks to women writers, translators and to the presses getting this work to us, including @zephyrlitpress, @ndpublishing,@nyrbooks, @uglyducklingpresse, @nupress, @openletterbooks...

* Midsummer * Pause *

*Thank you, Poets House for your annual Showcase and for including "Unnameable", my TR of Catalan poet Anna Gual's work (@ZephyerPressLit) on your Showcase, and now permanent, shelves, and for inviting me to participate in the community reading* Link here: collections.poetshouse.org/record/87350...

*Thank you Poetry Daily staff and board for selecting my translation of @Anniegual's poem, "Renec", from "Unnameable" (@zephyrlitpress, 2025) as today's poem* Originally published in Four Way Review, fall 2024. poems.com

Thank you Poetry Society of America for the opportunity to share some thoughts on my translation process through a poem by Catalan poet @anniegual from our book "Unnameable" (@zephyrlitpress). poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

Ramadan Kareem, ya Gaza arablit.org/2026/02/19/r...

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Maya Al Zaben on literature as resistance, On the Zero Line, and the urgency of preserving Gaza’s culture.

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

"The desperation is making space for something else to emerge."—Dobby Gibson lithub.com/letter-from-...

The social media feeds of the Department of Labor have gone full-tilt white nationalist. As @kimkelly.bsky.social writes, this betrays the agency’s history, and its former secretary Frances Perkins.

Minnesota's Secretary of State has denied bribe for hire Pam Bondi's extortion request for the state’s voter rolls. So proud of Minnesota. Never bow to fascists.

Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

"I thought this was the end": Anti-ICE protesters recount bloody attack by DHS agents in Santa Ana

"An olive taught refusal— roots clasping dark without asking." In our latest dispatch, Alaa Alqaisi writes from Gaza, from a moment when leaving wasn’t a choice but a matter of surviving genocide. thecommononline.org/the-ground-t...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

In the Oak Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2025, an ICE goon tased a non-resisting woman and then threw her non-responsive body into his truck like a rag doll.

Viatge interior / Inner Journey / from UNNAMEABLE / Poems by Catalan poet Anna Gual, tr by AKaiser. This poem originally given space in POETRY (June2023). #poetry #translation Out now with @zephyrpress.bsky.social

ABUNDÀNCIA / ABUNDANCE / from UNNAMEABLE / Poems by Catalan poet Anna Gual, tr by AKaiser. This poem originally given space in Harvard Review's Omniglots Series (July2022). Out now with @zephyrpress.bsky.social

***UNNAMEABLE***PUB DAY***GRÀCIES***THANK YOU*** Anna Gual; @zephyrpress.bsky.social; Francesc Parcerisas & @janehuffman.bsky.social for comments. HAVE A READ-- www.zephyrpress.org/product-page...

~ World Translation Day ~ "I don’t think anybody ever knows what another person means when they speak, frankly. It’s more than translation, it’s just throwing yourself into the dark." --Anne Carson, @parisreview.bsky.social, April 2024

ONLY POEMS DAILY www.onlypoemsdaily.com?r=6jaq8q&utm...

“It’s like that. Murky awakening to the stories of others. They give us outlines we’ve to fill in. Bushels full of obstacles. Creation comes with impediment. . . .” From “Fail Better,” by Anna Gual (trans. AKaiser) @akaiser-org.bsky.social‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Every member of the US House should sign the discharge petition regarding the Epstein files Anyone not signing it has no business being in the U.S. house

Every time someone calls the Epstein case a hoax or tries to downplay it, remember that the women you see today were CHILDREN AND TEENS. and they’ve been trying to hold people accountable SINCE THE MID NINETIES. Look at your own kids and think about that.

We could’ve had Kamala Harris a compassionate president working on worthwhile issues but folks voted for the evil orange guy who is more focused on covering up his friendship with Epstein right now. 💔

Giving a predator like Ghislain Maxwell a platform, moving her to a comfortable prison without receiving anything in return except to claim innocence and say you’re nice guy— when 100’s of children where victimized is a miscarriage of justice. Epstein survivor—“…She also participated in the abuse…”

The bipartisan Restore Trust in Congress Act is a necessary step to ban Members of Congress and their families from engaging in insider trading. It is time to pass this bill and make it clear to the American people that their elected officials put them first.

The House and Senate are back in session this week. Who else thinks it's time to ban members of Congress from trading stocks?

Happy PUB Day, Jane Harrington! Congratulations on an amazingly well-researched, composed--and revealing--book. bookshop.org/p/books/wome...

lithub.com/gaza-through...

Unnameable, Catalan poet Anna Gual's work in my NEA-supported (2022) translations into English, out with Zephyr Press this fall-- Good news from Bookshop.org & Women in Translation Month: We made their list: bookshop.org/lists/women-... Thank you.

apnews.com/article/gaza...

#gaza

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger. #protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Beneath the Howl of Hunger arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

gassing people?