Monika Cassel
@monikacassel.bsky.social
Poet, translator from German, unsure of what clever third attribute to list.
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Monika Cassel
@monikacassel.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Writing from a subway platform, @monikacassel.bsky.social observes Berlin’s broken history, and discovers fragments of her own family in the process.
Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD
Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD
Glass: Five Sonnets
MONIKA CASSEL <br> In ’87 I see guardsmen walk their AK-47s / on the platforms. The trains slow down but never stop. I think, / my mother was born in such a different Germany, but this is true for…
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Thrilled to share five sonnets about Potsdamer Platz, my great-grandfather's glass factory, and how the long shadow of totalitarianism persists for decades not only in our landscapes but in ourselves. Thanks to @commonmag.bsky.social for giving these poems a home.
So excited to share four poems from a collaboration I'm honored to be working on with @christophernelson.bsky.social!!! These are wild, wonderful poems. Take a look!
Delighted to share translations from a project I'm working on with the amazing @monikacassel.bsky.social: four poems from Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau, a brilliant, hallucinatory re-telling of the Odyssey. Thanks to Asymptote for believing in the work.
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
from No One’s Woman - Asymptote
TISSUE SAMPLE : PENELOPEpenelope waits waits for whatwaits penelope? does calypso wait circe wait scylla charybdis sirens wait all all for one only: the one the other—different fr...
www.asymptotejournal.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So excited to share four poems from a collaboration I'm honored to be working on with @christophernelson.bsky.social!!! These are wild, wonderful poems. Take a look!
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Delighted to share translations from a project I'm working on with the amazing @monikacassel.bsky.social: four poems from Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau, a brilliant, hallucinatory re-telling of the Odyssey. Thanks to Asymptote for believing in the work.
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
from No One’s Woman - Asymptote
TISSUE SAMPLE : PENELOPEpenelope waits waits for whatwaits penelope? does calypso wait circe wait scylla charybdis sirens wait all all for one only: the one the other—different fr...
www.asymptotejournal.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Delighted to share translations from a project I'm working on with the amazing @monikacassel.bsky.social: four poems from Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau, a brilliant, hallucinatory re-telling of the Odyssey. Thanks to Asymptote for believing in the work.
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
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Summer 2025 Reading Period Report & Finalists newsletter is here! 🎉🎉🎉
Summer 2025 Open Reading Period Report & Finalists!
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August 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Summer 2025 Reading Period Report & Finalists newsletter is here! 🎉🎉🎉
Super-excited to have my long poem "Sightlines" out in Under a Warm Green Linden 19. Long poems are my favorite poems to read and to write, and this one--about matrilineal connections, history, and art-making--is especially dear to me. www.greenlindenpress.com/issue19
Issue 19 — Green Linden Press
www.greenlindenpress.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Super-excited to have my long poem "Sightlines" out in Under a Warm Green Linden 19. Long poems are my favorite poems to read and to write, and this one--about matrilineal connections, history, and art-making--is especially dear to me. www.greenlindenpress.com/issue19
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BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
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Standing underneath the old border between East and West Berlin, @monikacassel.bsky.social finds her family history plastered on the walls. Check out our newest Dispatch at TC Online:
Glass: Five Sonnets
MONIKA CASSEL <br> In ’87 I see guardsmen walk their AK-47s / on the platforms. The trains slow down but never stop. I think, / my mother was born in such a different Germany, but this is true for…
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April 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Standing underneath the old border between East and West Berlin, @monikacassel.bsky.social finds her family history plastered on the walls. Check out our newest Dispatch at TC Online:
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This is what not giving up looks like.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This is what not giving up looks like.
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Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
April 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
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Today I am reading, and returning, to two beautiful and still poems by @jillkitchen.bsky.social at Four Way Review fourwayreview.com/two-poems-by...
TWO POEMS by Jill Kitchen
unearth paper husk of bittersweet, a berry all too bright to summon a child. crisp of snow crust edge before foot weight sinks beneath, into soft. stone wall formed by calloused hands over t…
fourwayreview.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Today I am reading, and returning, to two beautiful and still poems by @jillkitchen.bsky.social at Four Way Review fourwayreview.com/two-poems-by...
Probably the nicest thing about editing for a journal is finding a poem you love, sharing it with others on the team, and finding out that they love it as much as you do! Like this gorgeous poem by @rvtrousdale.bsky.social in our new issue of Four Way Review: fourwayreview.com/herring-gull...
HERRING GULLS by Rachel Trousdale
Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher —Baudelaire No, Charles: we’re all in an airborne …
fourwayreview.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Probably the nicest thing about editing for a journal is finding a poem you love, sharing it with others on the team, and finding out that they love it as much as you do! Like this gorgeous poem by @rvtrousdale.bsky.social in our new issue of Four Way Review: fourwayreview.com/herring-gull...
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So grateful to be a staff pick!
Zipped over to my neighborhood “small” Powell’s yesterday to buy @patrycjasara.bsky.social's We Contain Landscapes and saw, again, that the poetry people there have good taste! Look at @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social and @aditimachado.bsky.social's books!
April 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So grateful to be a staff pick!
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April 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Thrilled to share five sonnets about Potsdamer Platz, my great-grandfather's glass factory, and how the long shadow of totalitarianism persists for decades not only in our landscapes but in ourselves. Thanks to @commonmag.bsky.social for giving these poems a home.
Writing from a subway platform, @monikacassel.bsky.social observes Berlin’s broken history, and discovers fragments of her own family in the process.
Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD
Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD
Glass: Five Sonnets
MONIKA CASSEL <br> In ’87 I see guardsmen walk their AK-47s / on the platforms. The trains slow down but never stop. I think, / my mother was born in such a different Germany, but this is true for…
www.thecommononline.org
April 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thrilled to share five sonnets about Potsdamer Platz, my great-grandfather's glass factory, and how the long shadow of totalitarianism persists for decades not only in our landscapes but in ourselves. Thanks to @commonmag.bsky.social for giving these poems a home.
Reposted by Monika Cassel
Writing from a subway platform, @monikacassel.bsky.social observes Berlin’s broken history, and discovers fragments of her own family in the process.
Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD
Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD
Glass: Five Sonnets
MONIKA CASSEL <br> In ’87 I see guardsmen walk their AK-47s / on the platforms. The trains slow down but never stop. I think, / my mother was born in such a different Germany, but this is true for…
www.thecommononline.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Writing from a subway platform, @monikacassel.bsky.social observes Berlin’s broken history, and discovers fragments of her own family in the process.
Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD
Don't miss Cassel’s new Dispatch, transmitted through five perceptive sonnets: buff.ly/JrHjSyD
Zipped over to my neighborhood “small” Powell’s yesterday to buy @patrycjasara.bsky.social's We Contain Landscapes and saw, again, that the poetry people there have good taste! Look at @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social and @aditimachado.bsky.social's books!
April 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Zipped over to my neighborhood “small” Powell’s yesterday to buy @patrycjasara.bsky.social's We Contain Landscapes and saw, again, that the poetry people there have good taste! Look at @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social and @aditimachado.bsky.social's books!
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👇🎯 We are having trouble using proper terminology because it requires us to fully accept exactly what has happened to our country & wrestle with the fact that every single one of our elected representatives in Congress is violating their oaths of office by not immediately impeaching & removing him.
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
👇🎯 We are having trouble using proper terminology because it requires us to fully accept exactly what has happened to our country & wrestle with the fact that every single one of our elected representatives in Congress is violating their oaths of office by not immediately impeaching & removing him.
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As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
Denver Quarterly 59 #2 arrived in my mailbox today, and I’m thrilled share three sonnets that distill signature moments of my experience being a teen in Germany/U.S. in the 80s. I’m a wordy poet but also love to write sonnet sequences. Grateful to the editors for including me in this fabulous issue!
April 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Denver Quarterly 59 #2 arrived in my mailbox today, and I’m thrilled share three sonnets that distill signature moments of my experience being a teen in Germany/U.S. in the 80s. I’m a wordy poet but also love to write sonnet sequences. Grateful to the editors for including me in this fabulous issue!
New poem in @diodeeditions.bsky.social--an ekphrastic piece on a photo of a flax storeroom (circa 1920) in a factory owned by my ancestors in Moravia. Many thanks to the editors for including my poem in this fabulous issue! diodepoetry.com/cassel_monika/
Monika Cassel
Flax Store (Ed. Oberleithners Söhne spinning factory, Halbseit, photo likely 1920s) Dust or light or fiber or slant of shaft or dust of dust or light or afternoon of afternoon of what this century spu...
diodepoetry.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New poem in @diodeeditions.bsky.social--an ekphrastic piece on a photo of a flax storeroom (circa 1920) in a factory owned by my ancestors in Moravia. Many thanks to the editors for including my poem in this fabulous issue! diodepoetry.com/cassel_monika/
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Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
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RED ALERT: Now Is the Moment, Folks talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/red-a...
RED ALERT: Now Is the Moment, Folks
Over recent weeks I’ve told you several times that while Democrats are...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
RED ALERT: Now Is the Moment, Folks talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/red-a...
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Day #1 of BHM: Fasia Jansen. She was born in Hamburg in 1929. She was the illegitimate daughter of Liberian Consul General Momolu Massaquoi. Massaquoi was the grandfather of Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, Black German-American journalist who worked at Jet and Ebony magazines. 1/
February 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Day #1 of BHM: Fasia Jansen. She was born in Hamburg in 1929. She was the illegitimate daughter of Liberian Consul General Momolu Massaquoi. Massaquoi was the grandfather of Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, Black German-American journalist who worked at Jet and Ebony magazines. 1/
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Huge congrats to @rclarren.bsky.social, @miriamgershow.bsky.social, Laura Moulton & all the other OR Book Award finalists & award recipients!
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ANNOUNCING THE 2025 OREGON BOOK AWARDS FINALISTS AND SPECIAL AWARDS RECIPIENTS
Literary Arts is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards. The winners of each category will be announced live at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony,
literary-arts.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Huge congrats to @rclarren.bsky.social, @miriamgershow.bsky.social, Laura Moulton & all the other OR Book Award finalists & award recipients!
literary-arts.org/2025/01/anno...
literary-arts.org/2025/01/anno...
Update on “Project Dishtowel,” where I’m teaching myself/ learning to spin flax and weave linen in an attempt to understand the processes that my ancestors mechanized and scaled up to a dizzying degree in a number of factories in 19th- to mid-20th-century Moravia.
January 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Update on “Project Dishtowel,” where I’m teaching myself/ learning to spin flax and weave linen in an attempt to understand the processes that my ancestors mechanized and scaled up to a dizzying degree in a number of factories in 19th- to mid-20th-century Moravia.