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Rebecca Weingart
@rebeccaweingart.bsky.social
Translator of Yiddish poetry
Co-editor of Tern Journal https://ternjournal.org/
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Short, pithy, actionable zine. Print version threaded below! #DHmakes
ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.

For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!

Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...

Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
September 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Found someone who cares about dictionaries and poetry at the same time! (Have we written about everything already?!! JESUS). Reading intro now.

Dworkin, Craig. Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. Fordham University Press, 2020. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/pub/93/monog....
Project MUSE - Dictionary Poetics
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August 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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less than two weeks left to send in work!
ANMLY is now open for new work!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap40
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
anmly.submittable.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Submissions OPEN for the Wisconsin Poetry Series! The wonderful Erika Meitner is stepping in as senior editor and at the mazing Nate Marshall as associate editor. I am stepping away from the regular series but still editing the Translation Prize!
July 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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We are now open for general submissions.

Submit translations of poems from any language into English.

Deadline: 15 August 2025. modernpoetryintranslation.submittable.com/submit/10070...
July 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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What's up, world? We're Chaski Review, a new literary magazine ready to publish you! Find out more at chaskireview.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Attn: translators! Two Lines Press has two open calls for submission right now, both due July 6th!
June 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Translation Prize alert: @ndbooks.bsky.social, @giramondobooks.bsky.social, and @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
just announced they're taking submission for their Poetry in Translation Prize July 15 - Aug. 15. www.ndbooks.com/prizes/
Prizes
New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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You know what time it is!

In collaboration with Exchanges at the University of lowa, the Turkoslavia translators collective welcomes submissions of prose and poetry translated from Turkic and Slavic languages (loosely defined) into English to be published in Fall 2025.
June 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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June 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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One month left! Submit by JULY 6: Open call for contemporary trans writers working in hybrid for our new Calico/Two Lines Press collection. www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
June 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality*
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern

Frank O’Hara

*our rainbow logo, happy pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53219/...
June 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The Authors Guild is hosting its translation contracts panel again next Wednesday, May 14—! More info: authorsguild.org/event/transl...
Translation Contracts 101 - The Authors Guild
Literary translators deserve recognition and compensation for their labor and creative work. While the royalties are typically low due to revenues being split between multiple parties, a publishing co...
authorsguild.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
May 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Thank you for visiting us, @oskarcz.bsky.social!
St. Louis! Many thanks to @rebeccaweingart.bsky.social and Christin Zühlke for inviting me to speak @washuartsci.bsky.social I had such a lovely time on campus, and the Arts Museum‘s Max Beckmann collection was a special treat!
April 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ICYMI

Launching MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan'

MPT Managing Editor Sarah Hesketh was joined by guests Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo, for readings from the issue as well as a Q&A.

Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhR...
Launching MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan'
YouTube video by MPT Magazine
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February 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I wrote my first ever translator's note about the insane process of turning La Infancia del Mundo into Dengue Boy, today on @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/inside-the-c...
Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy
My first experience reading the shocking, hilarious and ingenious work of Michel Nieva was in 2021, after he was named as one of Granta’s 25 best young Spanish-language novelists. A scout sent me v…
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February 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Looking forward to reading this!
In The Woman Question in Jewish Studies, Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff take a critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field.

Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
February 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Big announcement!

POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28).

POLIN is offering very generous financial support.

More details below.

Please share!

polin.pl/en/event/sum...
Summer School with POLIN Museum for Early Career Scholars | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie
Organizujemy tygodniowy program skierowany do doktorantów i doktorów na wczesnym etapie kariery.
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February 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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ANMLY is only open for ONE more day!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap39
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
anmly.submittable.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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What books should you read this year? Try books in translation.
Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation.
It’s a funny time to think about national reading habits. I’ve been looking for escape pods, personally. Books that take me far from this particular time and zip code. Perhaps riding th…
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January 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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No cover yet, but we have a final title, a price, a page count, and jacket copy, so it’s feeling real! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature
How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity
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January 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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ANMLY is now open for new work for 10 more days!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap39
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
anmly.submittable.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Exciting news #dhjewish #yiddish: the Yiddish Book Center has updated its full-text search site: ocr.yiddishbookcenter.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Looking forward to presenting at @farbindungen.bsky.social soon and attending these amazing panels and workshops!
#Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish is in just two weeks!

Take a look at the full schedule below to learn more about this year's panels, workshops, and keynote. The conference runs February 2-3.

Register here - bit.ly/registerfarbindungen25
Full-text schedule - bit.ly/Farbindungen...
January 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM