🌏Check out Asymptote’s Alton Melvar M Dapanas' fascinating conversation with #TamilTerrains co-editors Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran & contributors Enbah Nilah, V. Iswarya, and Jayashree Panicker. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/09...

Red Earth and Pouring Rain: An Interview with Five Tamil Translators on Thinai and Transcreation - Asymptote Blog

The poems themselves, both past and present, become the balm for what life denies you.

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Featuring @wtpress.bsky.social, @fourwaybooks.bsky.social, @tracepress.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, @tupelopress.bsky.social, @cmupress.bsky.social, and more indie publishers: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for National Translation Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For National Translation Month, observed annually during the month of September, we asked our member magazines and presses to share some of the literature they have published in translation.  …

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Check out this thoughtful conversation on #Tamil #diasporas #poetry & #translation on Asymptote (by Alton Melvar M. Dapanas) with the editors & contributors to #TamilTerrains : www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/09...

Red Earth and Pouring Rain: An Interview with Five Tamil Translators on Thinai and Transcreation - Asymptote Blog

The poems themselves, both past and present, become the balm for what life denies you.

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Thrilled to see #riverinanocean included in @worldlittoday.bsky.social fabulous list for #WITMonth curated by writer, literary journalist, & translator @samdapanas7.bsky.social 🌊 the anthology was created as a call, a creative manifesto, a gathering, an ongoing river...🌊

World Literature Today@worldlittoday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Who Runs the World?” In our July issue, Alton Melvar M. Dapanas offers 6 books and a YouTube channel for women in translation month. Choose a book and celebrate #WITMonth with us! worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/july/wh...

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Thrilled to see #riverinanocean included in @worldlittoday.bsky.social fabulous list for #WITMonth curated by writer, literary journalist, & translator @samdapanas7.bsky.social 🌊 the anthology was created as a call, a creative manifesto, a gathering, an ongoing river...🌊

World Literature Today@worldlittoday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Who Runs the World?” In our July issue, Alton Melvar M. Dapanas offers 6 books and a YouTube channel for women in translation month. Choose a book and celebrate #WITMonth with us! worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/july/wh...

From @tracepress.bsky.social , Tamil poet Rashmy’s SONGS IN A TIME OF CONFINEMENT (tr. Nedra Rodrigo) is attentive to nature while being honest about its dangers. bookshop.org/a/169/978106...

Songs in a Time of Confinement

In Adaivukaalathin Paadalkal Songs in a Time of Confinement, Rashmy reveals the pandemic to be a time of recollection for survivors of other catastrophes like war and exile. Counting time through a…

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I know there are lots of individual tools, but is there a nonprofit digital repository or e-book platform that makes AI avoidance a central part of its mission and technical infrastructure? (Like Bandcamp, but even *more* robust, and for books).

🌊trace catalogue 2026 🌏 Award-winning poetry in translation from Lanka, Sudan, & Pakistan -open now for pre-order from your favourite bookstore & our website. Each text at trace connects, reverberates, and drifts into conversation with what has come before & what is yet to come.

🌊trace catalogue 2026 🌏 Award-winning poetry in translation from Lanka, Sudan, & Pakistan -open now for pre-order from your favourite bookstore & our website. Each text at trace connects, reverberates, and drifts into conversation with what has come before & what is yet to come.

Wonderful to see so many courageous individuals and organisations nominated for the IPA's 2026 Prix Voltaire shortlist. Congratulations to Georgy Urushadze, Dar Al Jundi Publishing, Yehya Fekry, Gantala Press, Samyan Press and Vitali Ziusko ⬇️ publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/inte...

International Publishers Association Announces 2026 Prix Voltaire Shortlist - Publishing Perspectives

The shortlist, announced on Monday evening at the World Expression Forum in Lillehammer, Norway, features six individuals and organizations who have demonstrated “resilience and bravery.”

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some glimpses from time at U.Winnipeg's CanLit, Publishing & Pedagogy conference. While the work trace publishes doesn't quite align with the idea of 'canlit' & its settler-colonial history, we valued our panel conversation with writers Rebecca Mangra, Janika Oza, Zillah Jones & Renee S. Saklikar.

poet-translator Eman Abukhadra & trace's publisher Nuzhat Abbas read poems & excerpts from #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar during Poetry for Palestine's annual Nakba Day 24 hr poetry reading. Warm thanks to Suvendrini Lena, Roula Said for organizing this beautiful event.

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Montrealers! come join us to build community & solidarity with poetry & conversation Thursday April 30 7:00 pm Teesri Duniya Theatre 261 Ave. Des Pins Ouest - free #AprilPoetryMonth #NPM26 #ArabHeritageMonth #Arabic #Tamil #Palestine

Montrealers! come join us to build community & solidarity with poetry & conversation Thursday April 30 7:00 pm Teesri Duniya Theatre 261 Ave. Des Pins Ouest - free #AprilPoetryMonth #NPM26 #ArabHeritageMonth #Arabic #Tamil #Palestine

Read ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth! In this poetry anthology published by @tracepress.bsky.social and edited by Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj, “language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air.” tracepress.org/en-us/produc...

Arabic, between Love and War

edited by Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2 Poetry | Translation | Arabic   trace: translating [x] series In Arabic, the word for love حب  is one letter shorter than the word…

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Fadwa Tuqan was born on March 1, 2017 & died in 2003 as her hometown Nablus was under seige. Her poem "This Earthly Planet" was translated for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar by Eman Abukhadra. Please read today in honour of all who continue to resist. #WomensHistoryMonth #PalestinianPoetry

Fadwa Tuqan was born on March 1, 2017 & died in 2003 as her hometown Nablus was under seige. Her poem "This Earthly Planet" was translated for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar by Eman Abukhadra. Please read today in honour of all who continue to resist. #WomensHistoryMonth #PalestinianPoetry

Uncountable billions to destroy people, cities & civilizations on earth, & now to pollute & colonize our common, ancestrally honoured moon.

Over the next few months we will re-introduce you to thought-provoking excerpts from our groundbreaking essay collection #riverinanocean Today, we begin with @jobitek.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social & Lisa Ndejuru #smallpress #blackhistorymonth #decolonial #translation #feminist #essay

51 casualties in an elementary girls school. this is how they begin their wars.

Last 2 days for 15% discount!

trace press@tracepress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join us this week to read & resist all those who wish to enforce monolingualism & monoculturalism, eurocentric nationalisms, & heteronormative & regressive gendering. Visit tracepress.org for 15% off all our books To learn more: languageadvocacyday.org & freedomtoread.ca #LAD26 #FTRW26

Join us this week to read & resist all those who wish to enforce monolingualism & monoculturalism, eurocentric nationalisms, & heteronormative & regressive gendering. Visit tracepress.org for 15% off all our books To learn more: languageadvocacyday.org & freedomtoread.ca #LAD26 #FTRW26

"Finally, translation is also recognized as an act of resistance, speaking to the dislocation from homelands due to colonial actions, war, and migration, and the displacements of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island." - Joseph Schreiber #Review #TamilTerrains #Bksky #Poetry #Translation

Joseph Schreiber@roughghosts.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran @tracepress.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...

Join us this week to read & resist all those who wish to enforce monolingualism & monoculturalism, eurocentric nationalisms, & heteronormative & regressive gendering. Visit tracepress.org for 15% off all our books To learn more: languageadvocacyday.org & freedomtoread.ca #LAD26 #FTRW26

(this goes for books too...) "If the art you’re making, exhibiting, and circulating can only be supported by the people who pull us into the mud with them, is it worth it? " - @hrag.bsky.social

Hyperallergic@hyperallergic.com · 8mo ago

“The culture that Jeffrey Epstein represents is deeply embedded in the art establishment power structures that force themselves onto the rest of us, creating dynamics that exploit, degrade, and turn us all into cynics.” By @hrag.bsky.social

"Finally, translation is also recognized as an act of resistance, speaking to the dislocation from homelands due to colonial actions, war, and migration, and the displacements of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island." - Joseph Schreiber #Review #TamilTerrains #Bksky #Poetry #Translation

Joseph Schreiber@roughghosts.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran @tracepress.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...

The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran @tracepress.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...

The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran

Raging winds howl to the vakai trees as their pods tremble in fear. A land cloaked with countless peaks yet not an ounce of soul. It was this cold grim path that he, the ruler of my heart, chose ov…

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Thanks to all who attended recent TO & online events for #TamilTerrains! An excerpt from Nedra Rodrigo's essay is up at @adimagazine.bsky.social & poems translated by Subhanya Sivajothy & Yalini Jothilingam are on @alllitupcanada.bsky.social poetry blog.