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Bracken Magazine@brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bracken is open for submissions! Send us your poems, poetry translations, and visual art October 1 - November 30. See our guidelines here: www.brackenmagazine.com/submit.

The world owes the Mongols

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When the world gets you down, just remember the wonderful variety of dumplings out there...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Big news for anyone who enjoys discovering #books from around the world in #translation: @catranslation.org will open a new center in downtown San Francisco! Learn more about this exciting initiative and the capital campaign to get across the finish line. www.catranslation.org/sf-literary-...

A New Cultural Anchor - CAT Center

CAT is transforming a three-story, 7,400-square-foot building that's been part of this San Francisco since 1908. Working with local architecture firm

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I wrote about the bad state of book reviews… and reviewed a great new book in translation from Spain countercraft.substack.com/p/i-loved-th...

I Loved this Novel About Digging Up Frozen Soldiers in 19th-Century Prussia and You Might Too

Thoughts on the bad state of book reviews. Plus, a review of a great book: Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora (translated by Rahul Bery)

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Thank you to my wonderful publisher, @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social at Wandering Aengus Press and my Editor, @tms2072.bsky.social for shepherding Strange Gift into the world! It’s publication day! I sing their praises. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Jill McCabe Johnson@jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please congratulate @vkornberg.bsky.social on her poetry collection, Strange Gift, released today! Ellen Bass calls it "a lush debut, a narrative collection full of gift after Strange Gift." And @sfreligh.bsky.social says, "This is one stunning debut." wanderingaenguspress.com/strange-gift...

"O chainsaw father, unhappy engine, you loved that spot near railroad tracks, next to the water’s edge." Check out Pam Crow's moving poem "Military Cemetery" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/mi...

Military Cemetery by Pam Crow — Bracken

I found you here, Father, a decade after you died. Your tombstone is identical to hundreds growing like bleached teeth from the buzz-cut grass…

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T&I News - Doctoral student to translate English professor’s banned novel from Persian to English: https://bit.ly/47nwdtu | Binghamton News (02/02/2026) | By Jennifer Micale . . . #Education #Translation #Studies #Persian #English #Novel #AudiovisualTranslation #StudentTranslationAward #ATA #AFTI

Doctoral student to translate English professor’s banned novel from Persian to English - Binghamton News

Azadeh Eriss hopes to bring Iranian literature to a global audience during a time of struggle in her homeland

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That's a wrap on AWP 2026! Thanks to all who attended and participated in Bracken's offsite with Passager and stopped by our Bookfair table. Pictured (left to right) are Bracken editors Morgan Brajkovich, @medjyers.bsky.social, @katedeimling.bsky.social, Ted McMahon, and Linda Hillman Chayes.

Check out the new issue of Bracken! Issue XIV's cover features this image by Claudio Cambon: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/main. See more of his step well photos within the issue: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/cl...

Issue XIV — Bracken

Bracken has been around for ten years now, and our magazine is maturing.

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Hello, language experts! You still have time to submit a proposal to speak about #translation, #interpretation, or related fields at #ATA67 in San Francisco.

American Translators Association@atanet.org · 7mo ago

🎉 Great news—the Call for Speakers deadline for ATA’s 67th Annual Conference has been extended! Submit your proposal by March 20, 2026 at https://bit.ly/4kmhhBr! 📥 . . . #Career #Growth #Opportunity #Translator #Interpreter #Experience #LanguageServices #Professional #ATA67 #xl8 #1nt #atanet

"Unseen, I came to you on my knees, reciting Millay // to the air like a seaside cure, three long mountains and a wood." Check out Rachel Becker's beautiful poem "Field" in the new Issue XIV of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/.../field-by...

From the new issue of Bracken: "six sharp points and broad-chested // like a king’s stag from the old country." Check out @grantclauser.bsky.social's poem "Deer Morning"!

Deer Morning by Grant Clauser — Bracken

It cleared the boxwood hedge and landed feet from my hound dog frozen at the sight of the rut-crazed buck—

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It's so nice to connect in person! Hello from Bracken, at Table 526 in the AWP Bookfair.

ATA's Lewis Galantière Award is bestowed biennially in even-numbered years for a distinguished book-length literary translation from any language, except German, into English. Submit a nomination by March 1 at https://bit.ly/4kZGXEc! . . . #Literary #Translation #Translator #Language #xl8 #1nt

Such a pleasure to talk with @jackewilson.bsky.social about my translation of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni and why she was one of the most popular writers in 18th-century France (and how she practically disappeared from literary history).

The History of Literature Podcast@holpod.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Kate Deimling (The Story of the Marquis de Cressy by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni) tells @jackewilson.bsky.social about an eighteenth-century Frenchwoman who was a bestseller in her day, but whose best novels are only now available in English, after more than 200 years. #books @modernlanguage.bsky.social

📣 Submissions for the 2026 ALTA awards are open! Publisher and translators: Submit works published in 2025 to our book prizes 🏆 Emerging translators: Apply to the 2026 Travel Fellowships to get to the ALTA49 conference in Portland, OR ✈️ Submissions close on March 16! Learn more: buff.ly/x2W71cx

📢 ATA is excited to accept session proposals for ATA’s 67th Annual Conference, October 28-31, 2026, in San Francisco, California! Submit your proposal today at https://bit.ly/4kmhhBr! 🌁 . . . #Career #Growth #Translator #Interpreter #Experience #LanguageServices #PublicSpeaking #xl8 #1nt #atanet

Author's copies!

What fun to find a bodega cat pic taken practically in my own neighborhood! 🐱

Bodega Cats@bodegacats.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Sign up today!

Sarah Freligh@sfreligh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Florida friends, I'll be in Vero Beach on February 7. The adult class needs 12 participants for it to go, so please share widely. And sign up!

What happens when you are googling to confirm a fact and *your own writing* shows up as the top result?

Do You Want Your Newsletter To Show Up In AI Summaries?

I’m hosting a mini-book proposal course (1 week, less expensive) in March, as my January sold out and left some folks hanging.

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Hi, poet friends! My debut collection comes out from Cornerstone Press on January 27. If anyone would like to review it, hit me up and I'll send you an ARC! #poetry

Random wisdom from the 18th century!

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Loving these pithy excerpts from my slow rolling project on an 18thc book of miscellany.

Kate, after a moment, made the best of this. #WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames

Karen Santos da Silva and I will be at @wordupbooks.bsky.social this Friday talking about our translations of the best-selling French author you've never heard of: Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni. If you're in or near Manhattan, please drop by! #translation #womenwriters