Sohini Basak
@sohinibasak.bsky.social
writer of poetry, fiction, and a secret third thing ✨Malcolm Bradbury grant; TFA for Writing, Vijay Nambisan fellowship, SLF grant✨1st book: we live in the newness of small differences
Poetry editor: Words Without Borders
https://sohinibasak.com
Poetry editor: Words Without Borders
https://sohinibasak.com
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We're absolutely delighted to announce Magma 93 'Liberation' is now published and available to buy on our website.
Edited by Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social
#liberation #magma93
Get your hands on a copy now!
magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...
Edited by Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social
#liberation #magma93
Get your hands on a copy now!
magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We're absolutely delighted to announce Magma 93 'Liberation' is now published and available to buy on our website.
Edited by Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social
#liberation #magma93
Get your hands on a copy now!
magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...
Edited by Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social
#liberation #magma93
Get your hands on a copy now!
magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...
Writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. Do help out if you can and/or spread the word!
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
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November 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. Do help out if you can and/or spread the word!
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One of the best movie rediscoveries of the last decade was the Iranian film CHESS OF THE WIND (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976). It's currently available for free online with English subtitles mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Chess+...
June 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
One of the best movie rediscoveries of the last decade was the Iranian film CHESS OF THE WIND (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976). It's currently available for free online with English subtitles mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Chess+...
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Kyongmi Park’s “The sea and the here and” (tr. Rina Kikuchi & Jen Crawford) is a dreamy, shifting meditation on the sea and the self, which intertwine in unexpected ways. Read it on WWB: buff.ly/lW4SE6r
April 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Kyongmi Park’s “The sea and the here and” (tr. Rina Kikuchi & Jen Crawford) is a dreamy, shifting meditation on the sea and the self, which intertwine in unexpected ways. Read it on WWB: buff.ly/lW4SE6r
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CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Just a few days left to get your poems in!
***Deadline is Sat 5th April, 2025***
Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue.
magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
Just a few days left to get your poems in!
***Deadline is Sat 5th April, 2025***
Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue.
magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
March 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Just a few days left to get your poems in!
***Deadline is Sat 5th April, 2025***
Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue.
magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
Just a few days left to get your poems in!
***Deadline is Sat 5th April, 2025***
Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue.
magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
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We have extended the deadline for submissions to the Liberation issue to 5th April.
Submittable issue resolved. Thanks for yr. patience. Due to unprecedented levels of submissions, we reached our limit. We're considering the best way going forward to manage sheer volume & cost. We'll be accepting a further 500 via Submittable. After that limit pls post til 31 Mar
📷 Lana H Haroun
📷 Lana H Haroun
March 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We have extended the deadline for submissions to the Liberation issue to 5th April.
🍃 Call for Submissions 🍃 Magma Poetry #93
Looking forward very much to editing this issue on the theme of "liberation" with Isabelle Baafi & Tim Tim Cheng
@timtimtmi.bsky.social
Details: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
📩 Get your poems ready!
📅 Deadline: March 31
RT & spread the word!
Looking forward very much to editing this issue on the theme of "liberation" with Isabelle Baafi & Tim Tim Cheng
@timtimtmi.bsky.social
Details: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
📩 Get your poems ready!
📅 Deadline: March 31
RT & spread the word!
March 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
🍃 Call for Submissions 🍃 Magma Poetry #93
Looking forward very much to editing this issue on the theme of "liberation" with Isabelle Baafi & Tim Tim Cheng
@timtimtmi.bsky.social
Details: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
📩 Get your poems ready!
📅 Deadline: March 31
RT & spread the word!
Looking forward very much to editing this issue on the theme of "liberation" with Isabelle Baafi & Tim Tim Cheng
@timtimtmi.bsky.social
Details: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
📩 Get your poems ready!
📅 Deadline: March 31
RT & spread the word!
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Excited (& nervous) to be sharing this personal essay on translating while neurodivergent, autistic-coding, the search for authentic representation, smiles as social currency, dropping the mask and more. Read the essay here: tinyurl.com/4veu435y
February 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Excited (& nervous) to be sharing this personal essay on translating while neurodivergent, autistic-coding, the search for authentic representation, smiles as social currency, dropping the mask and more. Read the essay here: tinyurl.com/4veu435y
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#BayArea friends, join us tomorrow at 7 pm @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for readings and a conversation celebrating #Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish's NO ONE WILL KNOW YOU TOMORROW with #translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid and poet Zeina Hashem Beck.
www.catranslation.org/event/kareem...
www.catranslation.org/event/kareem...
February 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#BayArea friends, join us tomorrow at 7 pm @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for readings and a conversation celebrating #Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish's NO ONE WILL KNOW YOU TOMORROW with #translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid and poet Zeina Hashem Beck.
www.catranslation.org/event/kareem...
www.catranslation.org/event/kareem...
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“This story did not come about from a desire to be immortal, which strikes me as an embarrassingly egotistical desire. Anyone who wants to live forever must surely be the most fatuous person alive.”
One of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done, thank you @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social!
One of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done, thank you @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social!
“Making Space for Each Other”: Anton Hur on Toward Eternity, Translation, and Immortality - Words Without Borders
Mandana Chaffa uses the otherworldly premise of Anton Hur's novel Toward Eternity to discuss Hur's path to translation, community, and immortality.
wordswithoutborders.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“This story did not come about from a desire to be immortal, which strikes me as an embarrassingly egotistical desire. Anyone who wants to live forever must surely be the most fatuous person alive.”
One of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done, thank you @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social!
One of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done, thank you @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social!
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Isabella Hammad recommends essential books about Palestine by Jean Genet, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and more.
Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine
There are a very many great books about Palestine and by Palestinians, and to condense them into a single essential list is a difficult task. Some books recently celebrated in the anglosphere, eith…
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December 4, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Isabella Hammad recommends essential books about Palestine by Jean Genet, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and more.
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Add some international poetry to your wintry weekend. Join WWB and the Academy of American Poets for an hour of global poetry readings on January 25th at 3pm ET. Learn more about World in Verse 2025 here: https://wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2025
January 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Add some international poetry to your wintry weekend. Join WWB and the Academy of American Poets for an hour of global poetry readings on January 25th at 3pm ET. Learn more about World in Verse 2025 here: https://wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2025
Treeptypch, my prose-poem-fiction-non-fiction-dream-text-image mishmash/offering finds home in Almost Island's new issue (30th!)
Hope it rains softly if/when you're reading ☁
www.almostisland.com/winter-2024/...
Hope it rains softly if/when you're reading ☁
www.almostisland.com/winter-2024/...
December 9, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Treeptypch, my prose-poem-fiction-non-fiction-dream-text-image mishmash/offering finds home in Almost Island's new issue (30th!)
Hope it rains softly if/when you're reading ☁
www.almostisland.com/winter-2024/...
Hope it rains softly if/when you're reading ☁
www.almostisland.com/winter-2024/...
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It was a honor and pleasure to edit this whole volume, and especially Sohini's fabulous prose poem. Definitely check it out (and marvel at the layout folks who were able to reproduce the spatial layout of Sohini's text).
ELEMENTALS is a 5-book project from Humans & Nature Press. Series eds Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings.
My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social
Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/
Holiday gifting ideas :)
My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social
Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/
Holiday gifting ideas :)
December 2, 2024 at 12:46 PM
It was a honor and pleasure to edit this whole volume, and especially Sohini's fabulous prose poem. Definitely check it out (and marvel at the layout folks who were able to reproduce the spatial layout of Sohini's text).
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I published one novel and one short story (a novelette) this year. I'm very pleased to say they are *both* in Esquire's 30 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 list: RAKESFALL and my novelette "The Limner Wrings His Hands" in the DEEP DREAM anthology from MIT Press. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
I published one novel and one short story (a novelette) this year. I'm very pleased to say they are *both* in Esquire's 30 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 list: RAKESFALL and my novelette "The Limner Wrings His Hands" in the DEEP DREAM anthology from MIT Press. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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My brother Najwan Darwish has a new collection of selected poems out with Yale Press, translated as usual by the mighty Kareem James Abu-Zeid, called No One Will Know You Tomorrow. Go get it! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
December 4, 2024 at 1:22 AM
My brother Najwan Darwish has a new collection of selected poems out with Yale Press, translated as usual by the mighty Kareem James Abu-Zeid, called No One Will Know You Tomorrow. Go get it! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
ELEMENTALS is a 5-book project from Humans & Nature Press. Series eds Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings.
My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social
Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/
Holiday gifting ideas :)
My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social
Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/
Holiday gifting ideas :)
December 2, 2024 at 7:19 AM
ELEMENTALS is a 5-book project from Humans & Nature Press. Series eds Gavin Van Horn & Bruce Jennings.
My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social
Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/
Holiday gifting ideas :)
My piece AN ELEGY WITH HOLES (FOR THE INSECTS TO COME AND GO) is part of AIR edited with kindness by @daeganmiller.bsky.social
Link: humansandnature.org/elementals/
Holiday gifting ideas :)
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Freelancer Thanksgiving tradition of sending invoices.
November 28, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Freelancer Thanksgiving tradition of sending invoices.
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Join us to listen to poems from Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Tunisia, and to consider the work of translation, publishing, and community at this time of profound global grief and steadfast solidarity.
Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...
Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...
November 27, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Join us to listen to poems from Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Tunisia, and to consider the work of translation, publishing, and community at this time of profound global grief and steadfast solidarity.
Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...
Register here: tracepress.org/en-us/produc...
same, same!
Tentatively poking my nose back in here.
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October 17, 2024 at 4:08 AM
same, same!
an honour to have been on the judging panel for the 2023 Poetry Foundation Magazine Prizes
Do read: Jennifer Chang/Omar Sakr/Michelle Peñaloza/Omotara James/Lena Khalaf Tuffaha translating Zakaria Mohammed/Yongyu Chen/torrin a. greathouse/Nikky Finney/Roda Avelar
About the prizes: bit.ly/34SErrG
Do read: Jennifer Chang/Omar Sakr/Michelle Peñaloza/Omotara James/Lena Khalaf Tuffaha translating Zakaria Mohammed/Yongyu Chen/torrin a. greathouse/Nikky Finney/Roda Avelar
About the prizes: bit.ly/34SErrG
October 20, 2023 at 12:54 PM
an honour to have been on the judging panel for the 2023 Poetry Foundation Magazine Prizes
Do read: Jennifer Chang/Omar Sakr/Michelle Peñaloza/Omotara James/Lena Khalaf Tuffaha translating Zakaria Mohammed/Yongyu Chen/torrin a. greathouse/Nikky Finney/Roda Avelar
About the prizes: bit.ly/34SErrG
Do read: Jennifer Chang/Omar Sakr/Michelle Peñaloza/Omotara James/Lena Khalaf Tuffaha translating Zakaria Mohammed/Yongyu Chen/torrin a. greathouse/Nikky Finney/Roda Avelar
About the prizes: bit.ly/34SErrG
First post to celebrate a new publication after ages: I have a slightly experimental essay in this beautifully designed Guillemot Press book: SPECULATIVE NATURE WRITING. Gratitude to the editors Hetty Saunders & Jos Smith.
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction/s...
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction/s...
October 3, 2023 at 6:47 AM
First post to celebrate a new publication after ages: I have a slightly experimental essay in this beautifully designed Guillemot Press book: SPECULATIVE NATURE WRITING. Gratitude to the editors Hetty Saunders & Jos Smith.
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction/s...
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction/s...