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Karen Elizabeth Bishop
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poet, translator, prof | the deering hour (Ornithopter) | The Space of Disappearance (SUNY) | Cartographies of Exile (Routledge) | dir. The Elegy Project | dir. Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative
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Rutgers, this Friday! Join us!!
rutgerstranslation.bsky.social Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative @rutgerstranslation.bsky.social · 6d
Join us at Rutgers this Friday, 21 November, for a day-long symposium on Translation as Critical Encounter! Organized by Prof. Baba Badji and the students of his graduate seminar, Translation as Critique.
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
kebishop.bsky.social
Academic friends, students, friends of friends: a fantastic opportunity to join us at Rutgers next year for a seminar on TRANSLATION at our beloved Center for Cultural Analysis. The fabulous Jeff Lawrence & Preetha Mani will lead. You couldn't be in better hands. Post-doc applications now LIVE!
mlmcgill.bsky.social Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 6d
Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...
Signature image for the "Translation" seminar; black letters on a purple background.
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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More from Eve Luckring ♥️

from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press)

Happy #smallpoemsunday!

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@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
ECHOED : familiar but unrecognizable : this "b" for that "v" sound : whenever they blame the victim : each room swarming with ants... : how I let her down; I let her down; let her down
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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“No sibling, no mother. Her / paws were dry magic beads. I touched them.”

bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
kebishop.bsky.social
Delighted to be part of Uncharted Territories, a fantastic project from the Steamroller Group, in collaboration with The Hunterdon Museum and River Union Stage. Poets and printmakers in visual conversation. What a joy.
October 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
kebishop.bsky.social
Delighted to have two translations of Susana Thénon's work in the latest issue of the Tahoma Literary Review. A gorgeous volume. Thanks so much to @jessicacuello.bsky.social and Jim G for including these poems. 🌿

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Two Poems by Susana Thénon, trans. from the Spanish by Karen Elizabeth Bishop - Tahoma Literary Review
from Unrelenting Age (1958) | from Edad sin tregua (1958) Advent Why does it never get to beour handsthe ones that rise up,the ones that proclaim the
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August 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
kebishop.bsky.social
Two new poems in the newest issue of @thelincolnreview.bsky.social. These are strange little poems. "le oiseau parts" fits great in the mouth; be sure to read it aloud. So glad this pair landed here. Thanks so much to editors & co. at The Lincoln Review. A beautiful gathering.
thelincolnreview.bsky.social The Lincoln Review @thelincolnreview.bsky.social · Jun 27
🎙 ISSUE 6 IS NOW LIVE
Bold voices. Fresh perspectives. Timeless art.
Explore new poetry, fiction, essays, and visual work in our June 2025 issue.
🔗 Read now: www.lincolnreview.org
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#poetry #prose #art #journal #magazine
June 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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amsterdamreview.bsky.social
"I crossed / deep on a level elsewhere and / sleigh-bells / bent down"

Three poems by 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗝. 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗮𝘁 @sjane.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue

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Vessels like stranded vessels. we trust a good elsewhere. and commit to uncertainties.
May 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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necessary viewing
jenhoward.bsky.social Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · May 20
😱
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
kebishop.bsky.social
Looking really forward to this! 🌿
jencalleja.bsky.social Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · May 19
Fair is here! Out 29 May ❤️ 💙 💛

Blue original: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/

Primary colours limited/indie edition: prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair...
A blue book called Fair The Life Art of Translation readying atop a book shaped wall sculpture The same book but in yellow blue and red colourway resting atop a braided rope hanging on a wall Colourful books lined up on a shelf including the book Fair Both colourways of the book lying flat on a white table viewed from above
May 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.

This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
December 15, 2024 at 11:24 AM
kebishop.bsky.social
Interesting report from the field. I can't say I'm surprised. But I can say I'm relieved...
byleaveswelive.bsky.social Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · May 12
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Both Norman MacCaig podcasts posted simultaneously.

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Bluesky again is a better place for connecting & interacting with poets and poetry.
May 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion, even a paragon, of human flourishing at least since Aristotle"
dan-sinnamon.bsky.social Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · May 12
I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What is Close Reading?
By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?
www.thenation.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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May 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Some of my favourite independent bookstores for the occasion:

Chaucer's, Santa Barbara
Malaprop's, Asheville
Grolier's, Cambridge
Diesel, Oakland
Pegasus, Berkeley
Moe's, Berkeley
La Fuga, Sevilla
Book Culture, NYC
Book People, Austin
Armchair Books, Edinburgh
Farley's, New Hope
April 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Stanley Kunitz
DAY OF FOREBODING Great events are about to happen. I have seen migratory birds in unprecedented numbers descend on the coastal plain, picking the margins clean. My bones are a family in their tent huddled over a small fire waiting for the uncertain signal to resume the long march.
April 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
kebishop.bsky.social
The Elegy Project + the Woodberry Poetry Room look very forward to hosting this event, with guest Peter Gizzi, next Tuesday! See you there!
April 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
kebishop.bsky.social
This lark 🔥
poetrydaily.bsky.social Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Apr 13
Today’s Featured Poem:

“Invocation” by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, from Larks, published by Ohio University Press.

Read here:
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Invocation
I do not know whether it is morning         or mourning
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April 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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This is high art
April 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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amsterdamreview.bsky.social
"Sometimes the fragment is / a continent that floats, / a proposition, a bloodletting"

Three poems by 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 @kebishop.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-karen-elizabeth-bishop.html

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​​​ i thought we were trees, shrieking, dense, millenial. but no, we were hands, we were ocean hands, blind, fleeing, ignorant. unknowing we swept seawater into speech, cleaving, the fugitive madness settles, grief a feathered mouth, a mother
March 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Happy Publication Day to HanVanderHart's *Larks*!! 🌱I've been looking so forward to reading every bird, every exploit.🧡
hanvanderhart.bsky.social Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Mar 11
in the physics of ships, weight
is related to floating

I’m saying you can still float:
you can still feel light, some days

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happy pub day to this little book, out now from
@ohiounivpress.bsky.social 📚💙

www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...
Larks, among the blooming forsythia in North Carolina
March 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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happy birthday James Merrill 🎈
II Now just the least part of you Can be reached by love, as when The world coming between Causes a crescent moon.
March 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
seeding the dark,

Deborah Digges
First Fire of the Season Blessed is the word igniting now under the green spitting wood alive with insects. Blessed the names, dissembled, falling, blessed their miraculous erasures. How quickly a nest would burn this evening, the shell- embedded down, the underweavings. How quickly become a fist of fire opening mid-air, plummeting. When I was a child a falling star meant someone’s dying— the terrible luck of knowing seeding the dark, growing like prophesy, as if some distant farmhouse light had gone out for good in the imagination, some bird jumped in its sleep, feeling the dead pull of the migration.
March 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM