Monika Cassel
@monikacassel.bsky.social
Poet, translator from German, flax fiber enthusiast.
back then—this is true—the days weren’t any shorter and opportunities to do right weren’t any fewer (from today's Poem-a-Day, "A Brief History of Condensation Trails" by Daniela Danz) poets.org/poem-a-day
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damals waren—das ist wahr—die Tage nicht kürzer und die Gelegenheiten das Richtige zu tun nicht weniger und wahr ist auch ich habe nichts getan als Zeitung lesen dich zur Welt bringen und deine Schwestern den Flugzeugen nachsehen fr—Kurze Geschichte der Kondensstreifen tr—Monika Cassel t.ly/MfrH_
“Where Does Europe End?”: A Conversation with Daniela Danz - The Georgia Review
Daniela Danz and I have corresponded since 2015, when I first began translating her work. While our exchanges were initially practical or logistical in nature, we started engaging in conversations abo...
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back then—this is true—the days weren’t any shorter and opportunities to do right weren’t any fewer and it is also true that I did nothing but read the newspaper give birth to you and to your sisters and watch airplanes in the sky fr—A Brief History of Condensation Trails Daniela Danz t.ly/WXnz4
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Poem-a-Day Daniela Danz, translated by Monika Cassel “A Brief History of Condensation Trails” ...your face was the profile picture for the new millennium which I couldn’t even begin to understand because I was still preoccupied with the previous one... poets.org/poem/brief-h...
Daniela Danz‘s “Portolan“ poems are first at a new U Nebraska Press series
Monika Cassel@monikacassel.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnnouncing the Georgia Review Books series unpblog.com/2026/04/22/a... I'm so honored to have my translation of this incredible book be the first Georgia Review Books title in this new partnership!!!
Announcing the Georgia Review Books series unpblog.com/2026/04/22/a... I'm so honored to have my translation of this incredible book be the first Georgia Review Books title in this new partnership!!!
Announcing the Georgia Review Books series
The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the recent partnership with The Georgia Review to publish the Georgia Review Books series. Georgia Review Books showcases work that, per The …
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So looking forward to @monikacassel.bsky.social translating Daniela Danz's poetry. Pre-order at link #poetryInTranslation 📚💙 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Portolan - Nebraska Press
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So looking forward to this book!! AND it's going to be a bilingual edition. Get your pre-orders in! #PoetryInTranslation ftw!!
Monika Cassel@monikacassel.bsky.social · 8mo agoMy first book of translations is appearing January 1 and available for pre-order!!!! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... The first English translation of one of Germany’s most inventive and celebrated poets, Portolan, by Daniela Danz, follows the routes of container shipping that,
My first book of translations is appearing January 1 and available for pre-order!!!! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... The first English translation of one of Germany’s most inventive and celebrated poets, Portolan, by Daniela Danz, follows the routes of container shipping that,
Running off to work on a story. In the meantime: Religious left: still a thing.
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 8mo agoArrests calmly ongoing. This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.
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!
Christopher Nelson@christophernelson.bsky.social · 11mo agoDelighted 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...
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...
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...
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Summer 2025 Reading Period Report & Finalists newsletter is here! 🎉🎉🎉
Summer 2025 Open Reading Period Report & Finalists!
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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
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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
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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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This is what not giving up looks like.
Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · last yr.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.
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…
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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 …
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So grateful to be a staff pick!
Monika Cassel@monikacassel.bsky.social · last yr.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!
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.
The Common@commonmag.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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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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!
👇🎯 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.
David Slack@slack2thefuture.bsky.social · last yr.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.
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.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last yr.Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
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!
